Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Bantu people inhabiting south-central Mozambique and east-central Zimbabwe.
- noun The Bantu language of the Ndau, closely related to Shona.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This will also go for other languages such as Ndau, Kalanga and
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Why English, when his everyday languages are Ndau (a local dialect) and Portuguese?
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Elena's mother, Munen'wasse Ngonyama, was born in Ntimane (Manhiça) and learned potmaking from her mother, Muchurhu Sitoi, an Ndau woman from "Musapa" north of the Save River, near Beirawho arrived in Ntimane as either a captive of or a refugee from late nineteenth-century Gaza warfare.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Erskine's accounts indicate that keloid facial tattooing continued somewhat longer among Chopi and Ndau populations further north.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Simultaneously deploying multiple identities, multiple vocations, multiple languages (Shangaan, Ndau, Zulu, Chopi), multiple medical epistemologies, multiple systems of authority, and multiple interpretations of patrilineal kinship and marriage, the female vanyamusoro of Magudea district renowned for its mediums 27deserve a book-length historical analysis of their own.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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For example, women who traced their clan origins to places that had suffered from intense Gaza raiding in the late nineteenth centuryHlengweni, Musapa (the Ndau region north of the Save River), Chopi territory along the coast north of Xai Xairecalled that their ancestors had "fled" their homeland because of a "war" (nyimpi), but whose war, and why people were fighting, they usually could not say.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Lucia Ntumbo, also Nguni, had most of her tinhlanga done by the elder sister of her maternal grandmother, an Ndau woman named Qimidzi Mandlaze, in whose household in Chaimite (southern Gaza province) Lucia spent most of her adolescence in the late 1920s and who cut tattoos for "lines of girls" from their predominantly Shangaan village.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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H: In this story, did they say anything about how it was for her, your mother's mother, to live in a strange [i.e. unfamiliar] land, because Simangoisn't that an Ndau name?
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Note 21: According to Earthy, the Lenge were a people of mixed Tsonga, Chopi, Nguni, and possibly Ndau ancestry.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Note 68: E. Dora Earthy, writing in the 1920s, observed that certain groups of Ndau women in northern Gaza province were still piercing their lips in this manner.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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