Tsonga
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noun
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a member of a Negroid people of S Mozambique, Swaziland, and South Africa
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the language of this people, of the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family
Example Sentences
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The human-voice clips, which were at conversational volume levels, came from radio or television recordings of people speaking the four most used languages in the region, including Tsonga, Northern Sotho, English, and Afrikaans.
From Science Daily • Oct. 5, 2023
Vakhegula means "grandmothers" in the Tsonga language spoken in South Africa.
From Reuters • Mar. 28, 2023
It wasn’t until Tsonga was about to serve, he explained afterward, that he realized he couldn’t raise his arm.
From Washington Post • May 24, 2022
It was a farewell match that Tsonga acknowledged symbolized, in many ways, his 18-year career.
From New York Times • May 24, 2022
We spent a third of the class time learning “aeiou’s,” a third learning how to count to twenty in Tsonga and a third how to sit and stand upon command.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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