Tswana

/ˈtswɑnə/
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Other forms: Tswanas

Definitions of Tswana
  1. noun
    a member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa
    synonyms: Batswana, Bechuana
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    type of:
    Bantu
    a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa
  2. noun
    the dialect of Sotho spoken by the Tswana in Botswana
    synonyms: Sechuana, Setswana
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    type of:
    Sotho
    any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho
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