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Pages in category "Bantu-language surnames" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Dlamini;
Category: Surnames of African origin. 4 languages. ... Bantu-language surnames (7 C, 65 P) Surnames of Botswana origin (1 C, 11 P) Surnames of Burkinabé origin (11 P) H.
Abantu is the Ndebele, Swazi, Xhosa and Zulu word for people. It is the plural of the word 'umuntu', meaning 'person', and is based on the stem '--ntu', plus the plural prefix 'aba'. [6] In linguistics, the word Bantu, for the language families and its speakers, is an artificial term based on the reconstructed Proto-Bantu term for "people" or ...
The Herero (Otjiherero: Ovaherero) are a Bantu ethnic group inhabiting parts of Southern Africa. 178,987 Namibians identified as Ovaherero in the 2023 census. [2] They speak Otjiherero, a Bantu language. Though the Herero primarily reside in Namibia, there are also significant populations in Botswana and Angola, and a small number in South Africa.
Bantu-language surnames (7 C, 65 P) ... Surnames of Caucasian origin (3 C, 2 P) Cebuano-language surnames (5 P) Celtic-language surnames (7 C, 12 P)
Winamwanga surnames are unique in that they contain gender signifiers. All the female surnames begin with "Na" while all the male surnames begin with "Si." Unlike other ethnic groups in Zambia, who use such prefixes to mean "father-of" or "mother-of," Winamwanga have the prefixes fixed with their surnames.
The word “Luhya" or “Luyia" in some of the dialects means "the north.” There is no single Luhya language. Rather, there are several mutually understood dialects that are principally Bantu. Perhaps the most identifying linguistic feature of the various Luhya dialects is the use of the prefix aba- or ava-, meaning "of" or "belonging to."
The Malawian Tonga language is classified in a different zone of the Bantu languages.) In Zimbabwe, the Tonga also speak Shona, Ndebele and English. In Zambia, the Tonga also speak Nyanja and English, in Mozambique they also speak Portuguese as second languages. One of the most difficult task is to quantify the actual population of the Tonga ...