Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Bantu people inhabiting the eastern part of Cape Province, South Africa.
- noun The Nguni language of this people, closely related to Zulu.
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- noun Any member of a
Bantu people fromSouth Africa , most of whom live in the Eastern Cape. - proper noun The
language of these people; related toZulu
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- noun a Bantu language closely related to Zulu
- noun a community of Negroid people in southern South Africa
- noun a member of the Negroid people of southern South Africa
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Examples
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She released many of her most famous hits there including “Pata Pata”, “The Click Song” (“Qongqothwane” in Xhosa), and “Malaika”.
miriam makeba | mama afrika « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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Ever want to swear at someone in Xhosa or Romanian?
Archive 2006-01-01 KaneCitizen 2006
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Ever want to swear at someone in Xhosa or Romanian?
A Couple of Things... KaneCitizen 2006
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Culisa = second child of Yerush, Qen and Veida; siba to Bux; apprenticing to be part of a goatkeeping Manage on Yagi; (name means direct in Xhosa)
Archive 2004-12-12 Maggie Jochild 2004
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Culisa = second child of Yerush, Qen and Veida; siba to Bux; apprenticing to be part of a goatkeeping Manage on Yagi; (name means direct in Xhosa)
SKENE CAST OF CHARACTERS Maggie Jochild 2004
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Speaking in English, Xhosa and, to the amusement of the mainly-Afrikaans crowd of around 5,000, in Afrikaans, Mandela said freedom in South Africa will only gain its full meaning "as we succeed together in overcoming and inequalities of our past and in improving the lives of especially the poor."
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Mandela, who spoke in English, Xhosa and Afrikaans, said the history of what was now the Western Cape - like that of the whole country - taught South Africans that freedom was indivisible.
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At the end of his speech, attended by the full Cabinet and all party leaders and delivered in English, Xhosa, Tswana and
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Commuters will get pamphlets in English, Xhosa, Zulu and
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Mandela, South Africa's first black president, Afrikaner university workers in Afrikaans, Xhosa and English.
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