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
Instead, Tsonga produced a thriller — a nearly four-hour heart-stopper that encapsulated a career’s worth of highs and lows, effort and heart, cloaked in love and respect.
From Washington Post ● May 24, 2022
He won the opening set, nearly won the second and then roused himself in the fourth with Ruud close to victory and Tsonga close to a bigger finish line.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2022
They lived in Tzaneen, a town in Gazankulu, what had been the Tsonga homeland under apartheid.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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