tswana in English

noun
1
a member of a people living in Botswana, South Africa, and neighboring areas.
The rest were 10 Indians, two Americans, two Koreans, one Kenyan, five Malawians, a Belgian, one Senegalese, one Dutch, one Greek, one German national, two Ghanaians, three Tswanas , two Canadians, a Dane and two Irish nationals.
2
the Bantu language of the Tswana.
The schoolbooks were in English, notably the ubiquitous Nelson's Royal Readers, and Plaatje emerged with English alongside Tswana as his main language.
adjective
1
relating to the Tswana or their language.
The name Kami means acceptance in the Tswana language.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "tswana" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "tswana", or refer to the context using the word "tswana" in the English Dictionary.

1. Well-motived Lizard Tswana mysophobia Osnappar telescopic dopehead Beadlery

2. The divine name in a Tswana Bible published in 1840

3. The Northern Cape's four official languages are Afrikaans, Tswana, Xhosa, and English.

4. Bophuthatswana was a bantustan (a "homeland") for the Tswana people in South Africa

5. The Tswana breed had been developed over the centuries to suit the arid environment.

6. To be effective in my ministry, I have also learned to speak Sesotho, Xhosa, Tswana, and a little Afrikaans.

7. This was solved by having our Scriptural message recorded on cassette tapes by Tswana-speaking Witnesses.

8. (b) How did Tswana-speaking people react when the Gospel of Luke became available in their language?

9. The Moritsane culture is historically associated with the Khalagari (Kgalagadi) Chiefdoms, the westernmost dialect group of Sotho (or Sotho-Tswana) speakers.

10. Botswana is inhabited by people of predominantly Tswana origin (collectively called “Batswana”) whose recorded history can be traced back to the 14th century

11. Bophuthatswana, former republic (though never internationally recognized as such) and Bantustan that was the legally designated homeland for the Republic of South Africa’s Tswana people.

12. Bophuthatswana was an “independent” homeland within South Africa, meaning "gathering of the Tswana people", and was officially called the Republic of Bophuthatswana

13. On 6 December 1977 this 'homeland' was granted independence by the South African government. Bophuthatswana's capital city was Mmabatho and 99% of its population was Tswana speaking.

14. Bophuthatswana (/ ˌ b oʊ p uː t ə t ˈ s w ɑː n ə /, meaning "gathering of the Tswana people"), officially the Republic of Bophuthatswana (Tswana: Repaboleki ya Bophuthatswana; Afrikaans: Republiek van Bophuthatswana), was a bantustan ("homeland"; an area set aside for members of a specific ethnicity) and nominal parliamentary democracy in the northwestern region of South Africa.

15. Bophuthatswana (/ ˌ b oʊ p uː t ə t ˈ s w ɑː n ə /, meaning "gathering of the Tswana people"), officially the Republic of Bophuthatswana (Tswana: Riphaboliki ya Bophuthatswana; Afrikaans: Republiek van Bophuthatswana), was a Bantustan (also known as "Homeland"; an area set aside for members of a specific ethnicity) that was declared (nominally) independent by the apartheid regime of

16. Alternative Titles: Batswana, Bechuana, Botswana Tswana, also called Motswana (singular) or Batswana (plural), formerly spelled Bechuana, westerly division of the Sotho, a Bantu-speaking people of South Africa and Botswana.

17. As nouns the difference between Botswanan and motswana is that Botswanan is a person from botswana or of Botswanan descent while motswana is a member of the tswana tribe of southern africa, especially an inhabitant of botswana; a Botswanan

18. If a syllable bears a high tone, the following two syllables will also get high tones, unless they are at the end of the word. simolola /símʊlʊla/ > /símʊ́lʊ́la/ "to begin" simologêla /símʊlʊχɛla/ > /símʊ́lʊ́χɛla/ "to begin for/at" Nouns in Tswana are grouped into nine noun classes and one subclass, each having different prefixes.

19. Bophuthatswana, (amtelk: Setswana Repabolika ya Bophuthatswana; Lun, diar a Tswana tuuphäält, of kurt: Bop) wiar en homeland uun't nuurdelk Süüdafrikoo.Det wiar sööwen enkelt dialen uun a weesen prowinsen Kapprowins, Transvaal an Oranje-Freistoot.Hoodstääd wiar Mmabatho.Daalang hiar jodiar regiuunen tu a nei prowinsen Nuurdwaast, Gauteng an Mpumalanga.