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Setswana
Setswana meaning
A language spoken widely in Southern Africa, mainly in Botswana and South Africa in the Northern Cape, the central and western Free State and in the North West province, and also, to a lesser extent, in Namibia, also known as Tswana.
Example sentences (7)
Goapele—whose name means “to move forward” in the African language Setswana—is the daughter of a South African activist father and a New York–born Israeli Jewish mother.
Besides referring to the language of the dominant people groups in Botswana, Setswana is the adjective used to describe the rich cultural traditions of the Batswana—whether construed as members of the Tswana ethnic groups or of all citizens of Botswana.
In Setswana, prefixes are more important than they are in many other languages.
Most languages are best known in English without the class prefix (Swahili, Tswana, Ndebele), but are sometimes seen with the (language-specific) prefix (Kiswahili, Setswana, Sindebele).
The majority of Setswana -speaking people today live in South Africa.
The people as a whole are Batswana, one person is a Motswana, and the language they speak is Setswana.
The Tswana language, Setswana, is a language spoken in southern Africa by about five million people.