twa
noun
two.
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twa
1 American
[twah, twaw]
/ twɑ, twɔ /
noun
Scot.
Twa
2
American
[twah]
/ twɑ /
noun
Twas
plural
twa
British
/ twɔː, twe /
noun
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The Tutsis account for 14% and the Twa just 1% of Rwanda’s 14 million people.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2024
Oral tradition and linguistic evidence indicate that the Bantu intermingled with some of these populations, including rainforest-dwelling peoples such as the Twa and the Khoekhoe herders of South Africa.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
“We consider ourselves like an animal of the forest. It’s like we are tigers - when you take a tiger out of the forest, how will it live?” said Paul Sein Twa.
From Washington Times • Aug. 19, 2020
Only a generation ago, the Twa were hunter-gatherers who subsisted off meat and honey from Rwanda’s rain forests.
From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2019
Placing no confidence in any of Allan Cunningham's souvenirs of Scottish Song, we simply state that one of them, composed upon the theme of the Twa Brothers, is included in the Songs of Scotland, ii.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
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