Setswana

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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 (5)

Label Occurrences
Setswana canonical 61
Tswana 32
Tswana language 5

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 (100)

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
Naledi hasLanguage Tswana
linked to: Setswana