Nguni

American  

[uhng-goo-nee] / əŋˈgu ni /

noun

plural

Ngunis,

plural

Nguni

1. a member of a group of culturally and linguistically related peoples of southern and eastern Africa, including the Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele, and Swazi.

2. the group of Bantu languages spoken by these peoples, sometimes considered dialects of a single language.

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Nguni British  

/ əŋˈɡuːnɪ /

noun

1. a group of Bantu languages of southern Africa, consisting chiefly of Zulu, Xhosa, and Swazi

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Example Sentences

There is a word in the Nguni languages of Southern Africa that was, I think, George's lodestar.

From BBC • Jul. 24, 2023

The commune forms under the name House of Ubuntu, a Nguni Bantu term designating the universal boundedness of humanity, and succinctly names its shared goals as the preservation and self-care of Black people.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2021

And Zulu stick fighting appears in written history nearly four millennia later as warfare training for Northern Nguni men in 19th-century Southern Africa.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2015

Some 75 objects created by the Ndebele, Nguni, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga and Zulu peoples in the 19th and 20th centuries will be on view.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2011

Dark brown the Ogowé flies past the other side of the island, the main current being deflected that way by a bend, just below the entrance of the Nguni.

From Travels in West Africa by Kingsley, Mary H.