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Preferred term

tsnTswana  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Tswana or Setswana is a language spoken in Southern Africa by about 4.5 million people. It is a Bantu language belonging to the Niger–Congo language family within the Sotho languages branch of Zone S (S.30), and is closely related to the Northern- and Southern Sotho languages, as well as the Kgalagadi language and the Lozi language.

Entry terms

  • Tswana language

ISO 639-1 code

  • tn

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • tsn

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • tsn

ISO 639-3 code

  • tsn

Notation

  • tsn

In other languages

  • tswana

    French

  • Tswana
  • Setswana

    German

  • Tswana-Sprache
  • tswana

    Italian

  • Lingua tswana
  • Portuguese

  • Língua tswana
  • setchwana

    Spanish

  • Idioma setsuana

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/tsn

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