nguni in English
noun
1
a member of a group of peoples living mainly in southern Africa.
Southern tribes include the Tsonga, the Karanga, the Chopi, the Shona, and the Nguni .
2
the group of closely related Bantu languages, including Ndebele, Swazi, Xhosa, and Zulu, spoken by the Nguni.
The population of South Africa is made up of the indigenous inhabitants who speak two major Bantu languages, Nguni and Sotho, and European settlers, consisting mainly of Dutch and English.
adjective
1
relating to the Nguni or their languages.
We are supposed to sing this insulting hymn of surrender in FOUR languages - two Nguni languages, Afrikaans and English - and no other country I can think of, or any you could tell me of, has sunk so low!
Use "nguni" in a sentence
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1. Cowhide was used to make Nguni shields and the traditional skirt called the isidwaba.