Transvaal Swati

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Transvaal Swati is a regional variety of the siSwati language spoken primarily in parts of South Africa’s former Transvaal region.

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Label Occurrences
Transvaal Swati canonical 1

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Statements (32)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
regional variety of siSwati
belongsToEthnolinguisticGroup Swazi people in South Africa
linked to: Swazi people
closelyRelatedTo Southern Ndebele language
linked to: Southern Ndebele

Standard Swati
linked to: Swati language

Zulu language
linked to: Zulu
country South Africa
hasAlternativeName South African Swati variety
Transvaal siSwati
hasAncestor Proto-Bantu language
Proto-Nguni
hasFeature agglutinative morphology
click consonants
noun class system
tone
isVarietyOf siSwati as spoken in South Africa
languageBranch Nguni languages
languageCode ss (macrolanguage siSwati)
languageFamily Bantu languages
mutuallyIntelligibleWith other siSwati varieties
partOf siSwati language
linked to: siSwati
region Transvaal
spokenIn Mpumalanga Province
linked to: Mpumalanga

South Africa
former Transvaal region
parts of Gauteng Province
subclassOf Bantu language variety
Swati language
typicalDomain everyday communication
oral tradition
usedBy Swati ethnic group in South Africa
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

siSwati hasDialects Transvaal Swati