Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a group of peoples of southern and southeast Africa, including the Swazi, Ndebele, Xhosa, and Zulu.
- noun Any of the Bantu languages of the Nguni.
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- proper noun The group of Southern African
indigenous peoples comprising theZulu ,Xhosa andSwazi nations. - proper noun The group of languages of the Nguni.
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- noun a group of southern Bantu languages
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Before and After Shaka: Papers in Nguni History, edited by J. Peires.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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"The Trade of Delagoa Bay as a Factor in Nguni Politics, 1750-1835."
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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He said South Africa's unique animal breeds, such as Nguni cattle and certain sheep breeds, were highly regarded in other countries.
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"Expanding Views of Africa" includes over 200 works, from 6,000-year-old Egyptian pottery to 19th-century Nguni beadwork to contemporary sculptures, like this Zambian face mask from 1980 made with wood, beads and plastic leaves pictured here.
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We follow unsubtitled conversations in Nguni and assume we know what is said because of what is going on and because we've seen similar scenes in hundreds of other movies and TV shows but do we really know?
The Naked Prey 2010
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That, at least, is the case in such widely separated societies of recent times as the Gusii of western Kenya and the Nguni of South Africa. 97
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Maputaland was then occupied from the north by two culturally distinct groups: Nguni-speaking people in the south and Tembe-Thonga people in the north.
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The Nguni translation of the ANC is "khongolese", which means congress.
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Also, the Nguni translation of the ANC is "khongolese", which means congress.
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"They started stoning vehicles in the night but we managed to push them back into the campus," Nguni said.
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