tswana

Noun
  1. A member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa (synset 109713014)
    is a type of: bantu - a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa
    belongs to:
    • botswana, republic of botswana - a landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960s
    • republic of south africa, south africa - a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers)
    same as: batswana, bechuana
  2. The dialect of Sotho spoken by the Tswana in Botswana (synset 107008324)
    is a type of: sotho - any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho
    same as: sechuana, setswana

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