- a variation of Xhosa.
Xosa
Americannoun
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Xosas,
plural
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Xosa
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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
No man of the race of Xosa is.
From 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Bertram Mitford
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 Bertram Mitford
Jan Boom, in particular, had a long and trying time of it, but the Xosa was a man of parts, and a good bit of a lawyer himself in his way.
From A Frontier Mystery by Bertram Mitford
As I walked behind the Xosa, I was all aglow with eagerness.
From A Frontier Mystery by Bertram Mitford
But all, both northern Zulus and southern Xosas, are essentially one people in speech, physique, usages and social institutions.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
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