Motswana

E261308

A Motswana is an individual belonging to the Tswana ethnic group, primarily associated with the country of Botswana and neighboring regions of Southern Africa.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Batswana 1
Motswana canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf demonym
ethnonym
associatedWithCapitalCity Gaborone
associatedWithCountry Botswana
associatedWithCurrency Botswana pula
associatedWithEthnicGroup Tswana people
associatedWithFlag Flag of Botswana
associatedWithGovernment Government of Botswana
associatedWithLanguage Setswana
Tswana language
linked to: Setswana
associatedWithRegion Botswana–Namibia borderlands
linked to: northern Botswana

Botswana–South Africa borderlands
linked to: northern Botswana

Southern Africa
belongsToEthnolinguisticGroup Tswana
linked to: Setswana
belongsToNation Batswana nation
citizenshipTermOf Republic of Botswana
linked to: Botswana
continent Africa
countryOfCitizenship Botswana
culturalRegion Kalahari Basin
ethnicIdentity Tswana
linked to: Setswana
ethnicLanguageFamily Bantu languages
ethnicMacroFamily Niger-Congo languages
ethnicMajorityIn Botswana
hasCollectiveIdentity Batswana
linked to: Tswana people
hasCulturalPractice bogwera (traditional initiation, historically)
bojale (traditional initiation for women, historically)
hasGenderedForm Motswana man
Motswana woman
isSingularFormOf Batswana
linked to: Tswana people
legalStatus citizen of Botswana (in civic context)
nativeTo Botswana
parts of Namibia
parts of South Africa
parts of Zimbabwe
pluralForm Batswana
refersTo individual of the Tswana ethnic group
relatedEthnicGroup Bakwena
Bapedi
Basotho
linked to: Basotho people
relatedGroup Sotho-Tswana peoples
religion African traditional religion (minority)
Christianity (majority)
traditionalLivelihood arable farming
cattle herding
usedInLanguage English
Setswana
writingSystemForLanguage Latin alphabet (for Setswana)

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Tswana people singularForm Motswana
Bapedi relatedEthnicGroup Batswana
linked to: Motswana