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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Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The Lozi language, Silozi, is used as the formal language in official, educational, and media contexts. The Lozi people number approximately...
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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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Sotho and Southern Sotho languages, as well as the Kgalagadi language and the Lozi language. Setswana is an official language of Botswana, South Africa...
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Namibia (category Articles containing Lozi-language text)
Bantu and Khoisan peoples. The Bantu groups include the Herero, Kavango, Lozi, Ovambo, and Tswana peoples. The Khoisan groups encompass the Baster/Coloured...
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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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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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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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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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imposed their own language. The combination of Luyana and Kololo languages gave rise to the current Lozi language spoken by the Lozi people, descendants...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sotho-Tswana peoples (section Lozi)
their own state in what is now Zambia. During their rule, the language of the conquerors, Lozi, gained prominence in Zambia. Throughout the 19th century and...
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Tonga (1.0 million) Chewa (Nyanja) (Chichewa) (800,000) Kaonde (240,000) Lozi (Silozi) (600,000) Lala-Bisa (600,000) Nsenga (550,000) Tumbuka (Chitumbuka)...
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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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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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(b. 1978), Malaysian footballer MV Rozi, tugboat Lozi language, also known as Rozi, a Bantu language Rozi(company), a technology company This disambiguation...
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Lozi people. Ethnologue lists Kwandi, Mbowe, Mbume, and possibly Kwangwa ("Kwanga") as dialects. Maho (2009) classifies these as distinct languages;...
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a poorly described Bantu language of Namibia and Zambia. It is spoken by the Totela people, a Bantu ethnic group of the Lozi. Its classification is assumed...
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Sotho tribe of South Africa known as the Makololo. The Barotse speak siLozi, a language most closely related to Sesotho. Barotseland covers an area of 252...
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Lungu (disambiguation) (category Lozi-language surnames)
Lungu, (b 1969) Romanian novelist Lungu people of Central Africa Lungu language, spoken by the Lungu people This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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Recognition of same-sex unions in Namibia (category Articles containing Lozi-language text)
Naha ya Namibia". Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (in Lozi). 2016. Archived from the original on 29 April 2021. Retrieved 13 February...
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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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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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Outline of Zambia (section Languages of Zambia)
Jeans Languages of Zambia Bemba language Chichewa language Cilungu Fanagalo Kaonde language Lamba language Lozi language Kaonde language Lunda language Mambwe...
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