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Tsonga

American  
[tsong-guh] / ˈtsɒŋ gə /
Also Thonga,

noun

  1. a Bantu language spoken in Mozambique, Zambia, and South Africa.


Tsonga British  
/ ˈtsɒŋɡə /

noun

  1. a member of a Negroid people of S Mozambique, Swaziland, and South Africa

  2. the language of this people, of the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

In all, Tsonga would win 18 singles titles on the regular tour, 14 of them in the lowest ATP 250 category and two of them in the highest Masters 1000 category.

From New York Times • May 24, 2022

In literature, we read a Tsonga translation of Booker T. Washington’s autobiography, Up from Slavery.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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