Xosa
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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When Makeba sings or talks in her native Xosa dialect, its expressive staccato clicks sound like the popping of champagne corks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Greenoak addressed him in the Xosa tongue, being tolerably sure that none of the Police troopers within earshot possessed anything but the merest smattering of that language, most of them not even that.
From Harley Greenoak's Charge by Mitford, Bertram
Who comes there?” he cried in the Xosa tongue.
From 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Mitford, Bertram
The Xosa, who was walking a little ahead of us, paused at the sound of his name and waited for us.
From A Frontier Mystery by Mitford, Bertram
A few minutes of this and the Xosa halted.
From A Frontier Mystery by Mitford, Bertram
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