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Tswana

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Also known as Setswana, Sechuana, Bechuana, tn, Tswana language

Bantu language of and South Africa

AI overview

Tswana is a Bantu language spoken primarily in Botswana and South Africa. It matters as a major African language with hundreds of thousands of native speakers and significant cultural and historical importance to Tswana-speaking communities in the region.

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Encyclopedic overview

Distribution of Tswana (in yellow) in Botswana Geographical distribution of Tswana in South Africa: proportion of the population that speaks Tswana at home.   0–20%

20–40%

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tswana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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