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  2. Xhosa language - Wikipedia

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    English missionary Henry Hare Dugmore helped translate the Bible into Xhosa in 1859 Nelson Mandela was a Xhosa and was a member of the royal family of the Thembu tribe. Xhosa-speaking people have inhabited coastal regions of southeastern Africa since before the 16th century. They refer to themselves as the amaXhosa and their language as isiXhosa.

  3. Xhosa people - Wikipedia

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    Xhosa is an agglutinative tonal language categorized under Bantu linguistic classification. While the Xhosas call their language "isiXhosa", it is usually referred to as "Xhosa" in English. Written Xhosa uses a Latin alphabet–based system.

  4. List of South African slang words - Wikipedia

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    Literal English translation will align it with "-ness" (a.i. hardness, stubbornness). An example is: "hardegat-geit" (lit. hard-arsed and cocky). gham – A word to describe someone that acts out in an uncivilzed manner, or refer to lower class person. (other words would be "tappit", :kommen: or when someone is gham it portrays them as being ...

  5. Traditional healers of Southern Africa - Wikipedia

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    The Xhosa term "ukuthwasa" translates to "come out" or "be reborn," symbolising the transformative nature of the experience. [47] A similar term, Amafufunyana refers to claims of demonic possession due to members of the Xhosa people exhibiting aberrant behaviour and psychological concerns. [6]

  6. William Wellington Gqoba - Wikipedia

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    William Wellington Gqoba (August 1840 – 26 April 1888) was a South African Xhosa poet, translator, and journalist. He was a major nineteenth-century Xhosa writer, whose relatively short life saw him working as a wagonmaker, a clerk, a teacher, a translator of Xhosa and English, and a pastor. Gqoba was born in Gaba, near Alice, Eastern Cape.

  7. Languages of Zimbabwe - Wikipedia

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    Xhosa is an Nguni Bantu language, most commonly found in South Africa, spoken by around 200,000 Zimbabweans, a little over 1% of the population. [25] Xhosa is one of Zimbabwe's official languages. [3] [4] [5] "Ishe Komborera Africa", the former Zimbabwean national anthem, was based on a Xhosa hymn. A small population of Xhosa is found in ...

  8. The Click Song - Wikipedia

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    The Xhosa title literally means "knock-knock beetle", which is a popular name for various species of darkling beetles that make a distinctive knocking sound by tapping their abdomens on the ground. These beetles are believed by the Xhosa to bring good luck and rain.

  9. Talk:Xhosa language - Wikipedia

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    There is a Xhosa translator which enables you to translate English sentences to Xhosa, Xhosa sentences to English. Old English to Xhosa translator. English to Xhosa translator. Original Xhosa to English translator. New Xhosa to English translator (which it is under heavy construction) Regards, --Blake3522 02:52, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

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