While he grew up speaking the Tswana language, Plaatje would become a polyglot.

The Tswana language (or Setswana) is a language spoken in southern Africa.

In the Tswana language, however, Botswana is the name for the country of the Tswana.

The Tswana language belongs to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo languages.

They are one of the larger black minorities, and the Tswana language is one of eleven official languages in South Africa.

I don't have the capacity to remember what kind of bullet went through my head," Motshabi told AP Television News, speaking in the Tswana language.

The first grammar of the Tswana language was published in 1833 by the missionary James Archbell, although it was modelled on a Xhosa grammar.

The "Western Sotho" branch or "Tswanaic" branch includes the Tswana language, spoken by the Tswana people (Batswana).

In 1876 the South African intellectual and linguist Solomon Plaatje was born, and he became one of the first writers to extensively write in and about the Tswana language.

The common name tilapia is based on the name of the Cichlidae genus 'Tilapia (genus)', which is itself a latinization of 'thiape', the Tswana language word for "fish."

The first European to describe the Tswana language was the German traveller H. Lichtenstein, who lived among the Tswana people Batlhaping in 1806, although his work was not published until 1930.

"My son admitted that they did the killing," the mother said in an exclusive interview with AP Television News conducted in the Tswana language from her two-room home in Tshing township on the outskirts of Ventersdorp town.

The first major work on the Tswana language was carried out by the British missionary Robert Moffat, who had also lived among the Batlhaping, and published Bechuana Spelling Book and A Bechuana Catechism in 1826.

About 79% of the total population speak Setswana as second and first language.

Michael started to study Setswana and he made good progress.

There was something odd about the way the man spoke Setswana.

Translated from Setswana, the local language here, it means simply "woman."

For the first number of months they live in a village setting while studying the Setswana language.

She approached one of the woman traders and spoke to her in Setswana.

Setswana is spoken by around 90% of the population.

Traditional Setswana communities make up the party's base is.

The words were Setswana words, but one had to strain to understand them.

He wanted use of Setswana in Parliament and the councils.

The man spoke correct Setswana, but his accent confirmed the visible signs.

Magareng is a Setswana name meaning "in the middle".

Her name means to move forward in Setswana, a Southern African language.

Also on offer to investors are lessons in the local Setswana language, astronomy and bushcraft.

The name is a Setswana word meaning "freedom".

Moshaweng is a Setswana name for "place of sand".

He spoke reasonable Setswana and people liked him.

Crisp had also prepared a Catechism and other works in Setswana.

I was given a Setswana name meaning "the mother of questions" because I asked so many.

He frequently performs in ethnic languages, though mostly Setswana.

If you believed in the old Setswana morality, you couldn't turn a relative away, and there was a lot to be said for that.

Most of the doctors speak only English while the patients speak mostly Setswana.

The girl picked up Setswana quite quickly.

Dried bean leaves are a popular Setswana food.

Dikgobe is a Setswana word for samp and beans cooked together.