Tswana

History The first European to describe the Tswana language was the German traveller H. Lichtenstein, who lived among the Tswana people Batlhaping in 1806, although his work was not published until 1930.

Chances had been few and far between for the home side but they almost profited from a quick break just before the half-hour mark that ended with Tswana Maswanhise drilling the ball just wide of the target.

The guy was speaking deep Tswana and the way he spoke to his Downs friend, you could hear the bragging from the sound of his voice when he spoke about the 10 points gap Chiefs have over Sundowns.

He told the Sunday Times in January that his father originally hails from Venda (as does the new president of the African National Congress, Cyril Ramaphosa) and his mother has a Tswana heritage.

This year the derby will showcase sixty six (66) horses registered from Botswana, Namibia and Lesotho who will be racing at different categories comprising of 4 Tswana breed and 6 Thorough breed races.

We should also keep in mind that the make-up of Tswana communities changed over time.

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.

Description Derived from the Tswana word Kgala, meaning "the great thirst", or Kgalagadi, meaning "a waterless place", the Kalahari has vast areas covered by red sand without any permanent surface water.

For the last few decades, the guitar has been celebrated as a versatile music instrument for Tswana music as it offers a variety in string which the Segaba instrument does not have.

He produced phonetic/phonolological treatments which were masterly for their time on the sound systems of Cantonese, Tswana (Sechuana as it was then known), Sinhalese, and Russian.

Maho (2002) leaves SePhalaborwa and the "East Sotho" varieties of SeKutswe, SePai, and SePulana unclassified within Sotho–Tswana.

More specifically, the stone-walled ruins of Sotho–Tswana towns and villages are scattered around the parts of the former Transvaal in which Johannesburg is situated.

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).

Naledi, Mapetla, Tladi, Moletsane and Phiri were for Sotho- and Tswana-speaking people.

The majority of Tswana speakers are found in South Africa, where four million people speak the language, and where an urbanised variety known as Pretoria Sotho is the principal language of that city.

The Moritsane culture is historically associated with the Khalagari (Kgalagadi) chiefdoms, the westernmost dialect-group of Sotho (or Sotho-Tswana) speakers, whose prowess was in cattle raising and hunting rather than in farming.

The morphological and possible lexical variation among these dialects has led to the above assertion that 'Northern Sotho' is no more than a holding category for otherwise unclassified Sotho-Tswana varieties spoken in northeastern South Africa.

The Tswana language, Setswana, is a language spoken in southern Africa by about five million people.

They are apparently united by the fact that they are classifiable neither as Southern Sotho nor as Tswana.

Xhosa, Tswana, Sotho, and Swazi also made extensive use of hides.