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The Northern Ndebele, specifically the Khumalo (amaNtungwa) people under Mzilikazi, were originally named Matebele in English. This name is common in older texts because it is the name the British first heard from the Sotho and Tswana peoples.
isiNdebele dictionary, 1910. Northern Ndebele (English: / ə n d ə ˈ b eɪ l eɪ /), also called Ndebele, isiNdebele saseNyakatho, [citation needed] Zimbabwean Ndebele, [2] [4] Sindebele or North Ndebele, [5] [6] associated with the term Matabele, is a Bantu language spoken by the Northern Ndebele people which belongs to the Nguni group of languages.
Bilingual sign in Afrikaans and Transvaal Ndebele at the Pretoria Art Museum. isiNdebele (English: / ɛ n d ə ˈ b iː l iː /), also known as Southern Ndebele [1] [4] [5] is an African language belonging to the Mbo group of Bantu languages, spoken by the Ndebele people of South Africa.
The Ndebele language is closely related to the Zulu language of South Africa, and developed in Zimbabwe in the 19th century when Zulus migrated to what is now Zimbabwe from the Zulu Kingdom in 1839. Today, Ndebele is spoken by roughly about 13% of the population and is one of Zimbabwe's official languages. [3] [4] [5] [15] [16]
The official term is "siSwati" among native speakers; in English, Zulu, Ndebele or Xhosa it may be referred to as Swazi. siSwati is most closely related to the other Tekela languages, like Phuthi and Northern Transvaal (Sumayela) Ndebele, but is also very close to the Zunda languages: Zulu, Southern Ndebele, Northern Ndebele, and Xhosa.
Within a subset of Southern Bantu, the label "Nguni" is used both genetically (in the linguistic sense) and typologically (quite apart from any historical significance).. The Nguni languages are closely related, and in many instances different languages are mutually intelligible; in this way, Nguni languages might better be construed as a dialect continuum than as a cluster of separate languages.
Related titles should be described in Ndebele, while unrelated titles should be moved to Ndebele (disambiguation). Ndebele may refer to: Southern Ndebele people , located in South Africa
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