Setswana

E24414

Setswana is a Bantu language spoken primarily in Botswana and parts of South Africa, known for being one of the region’s major indigenous languages.

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AI-generated illustration of Setswana

This AI-generated illustration was produced by black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-dev (1024x1024) from a prompt written by openai/gpt-oss-120b from the entity's label + description.

Prompt

Generate an image of Setswana (Setswana is a Bantu language spoken primarily in Botswana and parts of South Africa, known for being one of the region’s major indigenous languages.)

All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
Setswana canonical 131
Tswana 69
Tswana language 11

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language ⓘ
Sotho-Tswana language ⓘ
human language ⓘ
alternativeName Tswana ⓘ
linked to: Setswana
belongsToBranch Sotho-Makua-Venda branch of Bantu ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Northern Sotho ⓘ
Sepedi ⓘ
Sesotho ⓘ
glottocode tswa1253 ⓘ
hasDialects various regional dialects in Botswana ⓘ
various regional dialects in South Africa ⓘ
hasEthnologueCode tsn ⓘ
hasGrammarFeature agglutinative morphology ⓘ
noun class agreement ⓘ
verb conjugation by subject and tense ⓘ
hasNativeName Setswana ⓘ
hasNounClassSystem yes ⓘ
hasTone tonal language ⓘ
hasWordOrder subject-verb-object ⓘ
isIndigenousTo Botswana ⓘ
parts of South Africa ⓘ
ISO639-1Code tn ⓘ
ISO639-2Code tsn ⓘ
ISO639-3Code tsn ⓘ
languageCodeStandard ISO 639 ⓘ
languageFamily Bantu languages ⓘ
Niger-Congo languages ⓘ
majorityLanguageIn Botswana ⓘ
numberOfSpeakersApproximate between 5 and 8 million ⓘ
over 5 million ⓘ
officialLanguageOf Botswana ⓘ
officialLanguageStatus national language of Botswana ⓘ
official language of South Africa ⓘ
recognized language in Namibia ⓘ
recognized language in Zimbabwe ⓘ
primarySpeakers Tswana people ⓘ
region Southern Africa ⓘ
regulatoryBody Setswana National Language Council of Botswana ⓘ
spokenIn Botswana ⓘ
Namibia ⓘ
South Africa ⓘ
Zimbabwe ⓘ
subfamily Sotho-Tswana languages ⓘ
Southern Bantu languages ⓘ
linked to: Bantu languages
usedAsLinguaFrancaIn parts of Botswana ⓘ
parts of North West Province, South Africa ⓘ
usedIn broadcast media in Botswana ⓘ
education in Botswana ⓘ
local administration in Botswana ⓘ
writingSystem Latin alphabet ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (215)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

South Africa → officialLanguage → Setswana ⓘ
Gauteng → officialLanguage → Tswana ⓘ
linked to: Setswana
Botswana → nationalLanguage → Setswana ⓘ
Sesotho → closelyRelatedTo → Setswana ⓘ
Setswana → alternativeName → Tswana ⓘ
linked to: Setswana
Setswana → hasNativeName → Setswana ⓘ
Bantu languages → majorLanguage → Setswana ⓘ
Southern Bantu → hasMemberLanguage → Tswana ⓘ
linked to: Setswana
Limpopo → hasOfficialLanguage → Setswana ⓘ
Motsepe → languageOfOrigin → Tswana ⓘ
linked to: Setswana
Soweto → languageUsed → Tswana ⓘ
linked to: Setswana
Tswana people → nativeLanguage → Tswana language ⓘ
linked to: Setswana
Tswana people → nativeLanguage → Setswana ⓘ
Northern Sotho → closelyRelatedTo → Setswana ⓘ
subject linked to: Northern Sotho (Sepedi)
Lozi → closelyRelatedTo → Setswana ⓘ
Gaborone → nationalLanguage → Setswana ⓘ
North West → officialLanguage → Setswana ⓘ
South African → languageUsed → Setswana ⓘ
Ekurhuleni → officialLanguage → Tswana ⓘ
linked to: Setswana
Benue–Congo languages → hasNotableLanguage → Tswana language ⓘ
linked to: Setswana
Klerksdorp → languageMajority → Tswana ⓘ
linked to: Setswana
Francistown → language → Setswana ⓘ
Notwane River → languageOfName → Setswana ⓘ
Sotho → closelyRelatedTo → Tswana ⓘ
linked to: Setswana
Marico River → languageOfName → Setswana ⓘ
Shashe River → languageOfName → Tswana ⓘ
linked to: Setswana
Narrow Bantu → includes → Setswana language ⓘ
linked to: Setswana
NCOP → language → Setswana ⓘ
Rustenburg → languageSpoken → Setswana ⓘ
Sotho–Tswana languages → hasPart → Tswana ⓘ
linked to: Setswana
Kalanga → neighboringLanguages → Tswana ⓘ
linked to: Setswana
Mofolo → languageUsed → Tswana ⓘ
linked to: Setswana
Proto-Bantu → ancestorOf → Tswana language ⓘ
linked to: Setswana
Southern Bantu languages → includesLanguage → Tswana ⓘ
linked to: Setswana
Pimville → languageCommonlySpoken → Tswana ⓘ
linked to: Setswana