Lozi, also known as Silozi and Rozi, is a Bantu language of the Niger–Congo language family within the Sotho–Tswana branch of Zone S (S.30), that is spoken...
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Zimbabwe. The Lozi language, Silozi, is used as the formal language in educational, and media contexts especially in Zambia . The Lozi people number approximately...
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Sotho and Southern Sotho languages, as well as the Kgalagadi language and the Lozi language. Setswana is an official language of South Africa and Zimbabwe...
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Lozi may refer to: Lozi language Lozi people Lozi (Homeland), a Bantustan in South West Africa This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
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Namibia (category Articles containing Lozi-language text)
and Khoisan peoples. The Bantu groups include the Ovambo, Herero, Kavango, Lozi, Tswana and Himba peoples. The Khoisan groups encompass the Damara, Nama...
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Zambia (category Articles containing Lozi-language text)
was largely forgotten and a new hybrid language emerged, SiLozi and the Luyana began to refer to themselves as Lozi. At the end of the 18th century, some...
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Kuomboka is a word in the Lozi language; it literally means ‘to get out of water’. In today's Zambia it is applied to a traditional ceremony that takes...
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Ovambo (Ambo, Oshiwambo) (1,500,000) Herero (200,000) Kavango (100,000) Lozi (Silozi) Jarawa (250,000) Mbula-Bwazza (100,000) Kulung (40,000) Bile (38...
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Province), Lozi (Western Province), Tonga and Lozi (Southern Province), and Kaonde, Luvale and Lunda (Northwestern Province). These seven languages are used...
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Mopane (category Articles containing Lozi-language text)
Transvaal). It is known as mopane, tsanya in Chichewa (Malawi), mopani, mupane in Lozi (fmr. Barotseland, western Zambia), mupanyi in Thimbukushu (Namibia), omutati...
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Victoria Falls (Lozi: Mosi-oa-Tunya, "Thundering Smoke/Smoke that Rises"; Tonga: Shungu Namutitima, "Boiling Water") is a waterfall on the Zambezi River...
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in 2000. Lozi, a Bantu language spoken primarily in southwestern Zambia, is spoken by roughly 70,000 Zimbabweans. There are over 30,000 Lozi/Rotsi speakers...
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Sotho-Lozi. Tswana is also known as "Western Sesotho". The Sotho-Tswana group is in turn closely related to the other Southern Bantu languages, including...
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Mbunda language of the Chiyengele group, mainly found in Mongu, is nicknamed "Shamuka"[clarification needed], heavily influenced by Lozi language. The same...
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(subscription required) Ndolo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Lozi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Ganda at Ethnologue...
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gago a e tle, thato ya gago a e dirwe mo lefatsheng jaaka kwa legodimong. Lozi: Ndat’a luna ya kwa lihalimu, libizo la hao li be le li kenile. Ku tahe mubuso...
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List of lingua francas (category Articles with Malay-language sources (ms))
[citation needed] The Lozi language is a lingua franca in Zambia.[citation needed] The largely interintelligible Manding languages of West Africa serve...
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Park on the Zimbabwean side. ‘Mosi-oa-Tunya’ comes from the Kololo or Lozi language, and the name is now used throughout Zambia and in parts of Zimbabwe...
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Lungu (category Lozi-language surnames)
Lungu (born 1969), Romanian novelist Lungu people of Central Africa Lungu language, spoken by the Lungu people Lungu, Estonia, village in Estonia This disambiguation...
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List of ISO 639-2 codes (category Articles containing Lozi-language text)
ISO 639 is a set of international standards that lists short codes for language names. The following is a complete list of three-letter codes defined in...
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Mwila (category Lozi-language surnames)
Mwila is a name of Zambian origin that may refer to: Mwila Phiri (born 1994), Zambian footballer Benjamin Mwila (1943–2013), Zambian politician and businessman...
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Western Province. "Liuwa" means "plain" in the local Liuwa language, a dialect of Lozi language, and the plains originally served as a hunting ground for...
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include all of the major Bantu languages of South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, and Mozambique, with outliers such as Lozi in Zambia and Namibia, and...
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Livingstone, Zambia (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
to the Lozi of Barotseland but in 1838 the Kololo, a Sotho tribe from South Africa displaced by Zulu wars, migrated north and conquered the Lozi. The Kololo...
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Recognition of same-sex unions in Zambia (category Articles containing Lozi-language text)
In some regional languages of Zambia: Bemba: Cêbo lya Cupo, 1918 Nyanja: Lamula la Maukwati, 1918 Tonga: Mulawu waLukwatano, 1918 Lozi: Mulao wa Linyalo...
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Kentucky (IATA airport code) The ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 language code for the Lozi language Laurence Shahlaei, English strongman This disambiguation...
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Bibliography of the history of Zambia (category Articles containing Lozi-language text)
river"). Zambia's history includes precolonial kingdoms such as the Bemba, Lozi, and Chewa, and links to the Luba-Lunda empires. In the late 1800s, British...
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South Africa and Botswana known as the Makololo. The Barotse speak siLozi, a language most closely related to Setswana. Barotseland covers an area of 252...
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Tower of Babel (redirect from Confusion of languages)
around the world. He identified Livingston's account with a tale found in Lozi mythology, wherein the wicked men build a tower of masts to pursue the Creator-God...
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Northern Sotho (redirect from Sepedi language)
with their sister language Setswana.[citation needed] Northern Sotho is also closely related to Setswana, sheKgalagari and siLozi. It is a standardized...
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