Nguni
Americannoun
plural
Ngunis,plural
Nguni-
a member of a group of culturally and linguistically related peoples of southern and eastern Africa, including the Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele, and Swazi.
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the group of Bantu languages spoken by these peoples, sometimes considered dialects of a single language.
noun
Example Sentences
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There is a word in the Nguni languages of Southern Africa that was, I think, George's lodestar.
From BBC • Jul. 24, 2023
The commune forms under the name House of Ubuntu, a Nguni Bantu term designating the universal boundedness of humanity, and succinctly names its shared goals as the preservation and self-care of Black people.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2021
And Zulu stick fighting appears in written history nearly four millennia later as warfare training for Northern Nguni men in 19th-century Southern Africa.
From Slate • Jan. 30, 2015
Some 75 objects created by the Ndebele, Nguni, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga and Zulu peoples in the 19th and 20th centuries will be on view.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2011
Dark brown the Ogowé flies past the other side of the island, the main current being deflected that way by a bend, just below the entrance of the Nguni.
From Travels in West Africa by Kingsley, Mary H.
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