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Xhosa language, the Glossary

Xhosa, formerly spelled Xosa and also known by its local name isiXhosa, is a Nguni language, indigenous to Southern Africa and one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe.^[1]

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Affricate

An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).

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Agglutination

In linguistics, agglutination is a morphological process in which words are formed by stringing together morphemes, each of which corresponds to a single syntactic feature.

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Airstream mechanism

In phonetics, the airstream mechanism is the method by which airflow is created in the vocal tract.

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Alveolar click

The alveolar or postalveolar clicks are a family of click consonants found only in Africa and in the Damin ritual jargon of Australia.

See Xhosa language and Alveolar click

Alveolar consonant

Alveolar (UK also) consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the upper teeth.

See Xhosa language and Alveolar consonant

Arthur Capell

Arthur Capell (28 March 1902 – 10 August 1986) was an Australian linguist, who made major contributions to the study of Australian languages, Austronesian languages and Papuan languages.

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Aspirated consonant

In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.

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Atlantic–Congo languages

The Atlantic–Congo languages comprise the largest demonstrated family of languages in Africa.

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Avengers: Endgame

Avengers: Endgame is a 2019 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers.

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Avengers: Infinity War

Avengers: Infinity War is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers.

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Back vowel

A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.

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Bantoid languages

Bantoid is a major branch of the Benue–Congo language family.

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Bantu Education Act, 1953

The Bantu Education Act 1953 (Act No. 47 of 1953; later renamed the Black Education Act, 1953) was a South African segregation law that legislated for several aspects of the apartheid system.

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Bantu languages

The Bantu languages (English:, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu peoples of Central, Southern, Eastern and Southeast Africa.

See Xhosa language and Bantu languages

Benue–Congo languages

Benue–Congo (sometimes called East Benue–Congo) is a major branch of the Volta-Congo languages which covers most of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Black Panther (film)

Black Panther is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name.

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a 2022 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Shuri / Black Panther.

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Botswana

Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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Breathy voice (also called murmured voice, whispery voice, soughing and susurration) is a phonation in which the vocal folds vibrate, as they do in normal (modal) voicing, but are adjusted to let more air escape which produces a sighing-like sound.

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Captain America: Civil War

Captain America: Civil War is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

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Central consonant

A central consonant, also known as a median consonant, is a consonant sound that is produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue.

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Click consonant

Click consonants, or clicks, are speech sounds that occur as consonants in many languages of Southern Africa and in three languages of East Africa.

See Xhosa language and Click consonant

Close vowel

A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.

See Xhosa language and Close vowel

Consonant

In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract, except for the h, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.

See Xhosa language and Consonant

Dental click

Dental (or more precisely denti-alveolar) clicks are a family of click consonants found, as constituents of words, only in Africa and in the Damin ritual jargon of Australia.

See Xhosa language and Dental click

Dental consonant

A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as,. In some languages, dentals are distinguished from other groups, such as alveolar consonants, in which the tongue contacts the gum ridge.

See Xhosa language and Dental consonant

Depressor consonant

A depressor consonant is a consonant that depresses (lowers) the tone of its or a neighboring syllable.

See Xhosa language and Depressor consonant

Ditema tsa Dinoko

Ditema tsa Dinoko (Sesotho for "Ditema syllabary"), also known as ditema tsa Sesotho, is a constructed writing system (specifically, a featural syllabary) for the siNtu or Southern Bantu languages (such as Sesotho, Setswana, IsiZulu, IsiXhosa, SiSwati, SiPhuthi, Xitsonga, EMakhuwa, ChiNgoni, SiLozi, and Tshivenḓa).

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Eastern Cape

The Eastern Cape (iMpuma-Kapa; Oos-Kaap) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.

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Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press is a scholarly publisher of academic books and journals, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Ejective consonant

In phonetics, ejective consonants are usually voiceless consonants that are pronounced with a glottalic egressive airstream.

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Endonym and exonym

An endonym (also known as autonym) is a common, native name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside a particular group or linguistic community to identify or designate themselves, their homeland, or their language.

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Enoch Sontonga

Enoch Mankayi Sontonga (– 18 April 1905) was a South African composer, who is best known for writing the Xhosa hymn "", which, in abbreviated version, has been sung as the first half of the national anthem of South Africa since 1994.

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Free State (province)

The Free State (Freistata; Vrystaat; iFreyistata; Foreistata; iFuleyisitata), formerly known as the Orange Free State, is a province of South Africa.

See Xhosa language and Free State (province)

Fricative

A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

See Xhosa language and Fricative

Front vowel

A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant.

See Xhosa language and Front vowel

Functional load

In linguistics and especially phonology, functional load, or phonemic load, is the collection of words that contain a certain pronunciation feature (a phoneme) that makes distinctions between other words.

See Xhosa language and Functional load

Gallaudet University Press

Gallaudet University Press (GUPress) is a publisher that focuses on issues relating to deafness and sign language.

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Gauteng

Gauteng (Sotho-Tswana for 'place of gold'; eGoli or iGoli) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.

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Glottal consonant

Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation.

See Xhosa language and Glottal consonant

Grammatical gender

In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns.

See Xhosa language and Grammatical gender

Henry Hare Dugmore

Henry Hare Dugmore (1810–1896) was a British missionary, writer and translator.

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I'solezwe lesiXhosa

I'solezwe lesiXhosa is a Xhosa language newspaper launched in 2015.

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Implosive consonant

Implosive consonants are a group of stop consonants (and possibly also some affricates) with a mixed glottalic ingressive and pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism.

See Xhosa language and Implosive consonant

International Phonetic Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.

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John Bennie (missionary)

John Bennie (1796–1869) was a Presbyterian minister, missionary, and early Xhosa linguist.

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John Kani

Bonisile John Kani, OIS, (born 30 August 1942) is a South African actor, author, director and playwright.

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Journal of Phonetics

The Journal of Phonetics is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers topics in phonetics and phonology.

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Juǀʼhoan language

Juǀʼhoan, also known as Southern or Southeastern ǃKung or ǃXun, is the southern variety of the ǃKung dialect continuum, spoken in northeastern Namibia and the Northwest District of Botswana by San Bushmen who largely identify themselves as Juǀʼhoansi.

See Xhosa language and Juǀʼhoan language

Khoisan

Khoisan, or Khoe-Sān, is a catch-all term for the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa who traditionally speak non-Bantu languages, combining the Khoekhoen (formerly "Hottentots") and the Sān peoples (also called "Bushmen").

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Khoisan languages

The Khoisan languages (also Khoesan or Khoesaan) are a number of African languages once classified together, originally by Joseph Greenberg.

See Xhosa language and Khoisan languages

KwaZulu-Natal

KwaZulu-Natal (also referred to as KZN; nicknamed "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the government merged the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province.

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Labial consonant

Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.

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Language Magazine

First published in 1997, Language Magazine (formerly American Language Review) is the popular periodical of language, education and communication.

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Languages of Africa

The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2,100, and by some counts at over 3,000.

See Xhosa language and Languages of Africa

Languages of South Africa

At least thirty-five languages are spoken in South Africa, twelve of which are official languages of South Africa: Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, South African Sign Language, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu, and English, which is the primary language used in parliamentary and state discourse, though all official languages are equal in legal status.

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Languages of Zimbabwe

Many languages are spoken, or historically have been spoken, in Zimbabwe. Since the adoption of its 2013 Constitution, Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, namely Chewa, Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, Koisan, Nambya, Ndau, Ndebele, Shangani, Shona, sign language, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa. The country's main languages are Shona, spoken by over 70% of the population, and Ndebele, spoken by roughly 20%.

See Xhosa language and Languages of Zimbabwe

Lateral click

The lateral clicks are a family of click consonants found only in African languages.

See Xhosa language and Lateral click

Lateral consonant

A lateral is a consonant in which the airstream proceeds along one or both of the sides of the tongue, but it is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth.

See Xhosa language and Lateral consonant

Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.

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Latin script

The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.

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Lesotho

Lesotho, formally the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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Limpopo

Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa.

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Liquid consonant

In linguistics, a liquid consonant or simply liquid is any of a class of consonants that consists of rhotics and voiced lateral approximants, which are also sometimes described as "R-like sounds" and "L-like sounds".

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List of universities in South Africa

This is a list of universities in South Africa.

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Lovedale (South Africa)

Lovedale, also known as the Lovedale Missionary Institute was a mission station and educational institute in the Victoria East division of the Cape Province, South Africa (now in Eastern Cape Province).

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Mandrill

The mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) is a large Old World monkey native to west central Africa.

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Manually coded language in South Africa

In South Africa, manually coded language is used in education, as a bridge between South African Sign Language (SASL) and the eleven official oral languages of the country.

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Marvel Cinematic Universe

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is an American media franchise and shared universe centered on a series of superhero films produced by Marvel Studios.

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Mid vowel

A mid vowel (or a true-mid vowel) is any in a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages.

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Miriam Makeba

Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist.

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Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.

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Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.

See Xhosa language and Namibia

Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

See Xhosa language and Nasal consonant

National anthem of South Africa

The national anthem of South Africa was adopted in 1997 and is a hybrid song combining extracts of the 19th century Xhosa hymn "label" ("God Bless Africa") and the Afrikaans song that was used as the South African national anthem during the apartheid era, "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika" ("The Voice of South Africa"), with new English lyrics.

See Xhosa language and National anthem of South Africa

Nguni languages

The Nguni languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken in southern Africa (mainly South Africa, Zimbabwe and Eswatini) by the Nguni people. Xhosa language and Nguni languages are click languages and languages of South Africa.

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Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika

"" is a Christian hymn originally composed in 1897 by Enoch Sontonga, a Xhosa clergyman at a Methodist mission school near Johannesburg. Xhosa language and Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika are Xhosa culture.

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Northern Cape

The Northern Cape (Noord-Kaap; Kapa Bokone; Mntla-Koloni) is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa.

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Northern Ndebele language

Northern Ndebele, also called Ndebele, isiNdebele saseNyakatho, Zimbabwean Ndebele or North Ndebele, associated with the term Matabele, is a Bantu language spoken by the Northern Ndebele people which belongs to the Nguni group of languages. Xhosa language and Northern Ndebele language are Nguni languages.

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Noun

In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas.

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Noun class

In linguistics, a noun class is a particular category of nouns.

See Xhosa language and Noun class

Open vowel

An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.

See Xhosa language and Open vowel

Palatalization (sound change)

Palatalization is a historical-linguistic sound change that results in a palatalized articulation of a consonant or, in certain cases, a front vowel.

See Xhosa language and Palatalization (sound change)

PARADISEC

The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) is a digital archive of records of some of the many small cultures and languages of the world.

See Xhosa language and PARADISEC

Phoneme

In linguistics and specifically phonology, a phoneme is any set of similar phones (speech sounds) that is perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single distinct unit, a single basic sound, which helps distinguish one word from another.

See Xhosa language and Phoneme

Plosive

In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

See Xhosa language and Plosive

Postalveolar consonant

Postalveolar (post-alveolar) consonants are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.

See Xhosa language and Postalveolar consonant

Prefix

A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word.

See Xhosa language and Prefix

Prenasalized consonant

Prenasalized consonants are phonetic sequences of a nasal and an obstruent (or occasionally a non-nasal sonorant) that behave phonologically like single consonants.

See Xhosa language and Prenasalized consonant

Quthing District

Quthing is a district of Lesotho.

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Rhodes University

Rhodes University (Rhodes Universiteit) is a public research university located in Makhanda (Grahamstown) in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.

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Root (linguistics)

A root (or root word or radical) is the core of a word that is irreducible into more meaningful elements.

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Ryan Coogler

Ryan Kyle Coogler (born May 23, 1986) is an American filmmaker.

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SABC

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is the public broadcaster in South Africa, and provides 19 radio stations (AM/FM) as well as six television broadcasts to the general public.

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Second language

A second language (L2) is a language spoken in addition to one's first language (L1).

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Semivowel

In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel, glide or semiconsonant is a sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary, rather than as the nucleus of a syllable.

See Xhosa language and Semivowel

Slack voice

Slack voice (or lax voice) is the pronunciation of consonant or vowels with a glottal opening slightly wider than that occurring in modal voice.

See Xhosa language and Slack voice

South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South African braille

Several braille alphabets are used in South Africa. Xhosa language and South African braille are Nguni languages.

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Southern Bantoid languages

Southern Bantoid (or South Bantoid) is a branch of the Bantoid language family.

See Xhosa language and Southern Bantoid languages

Southern Bantu languages

The Southern Bantu languages are a large group of Bantu languages, largely validated in Janson (1991/92).

See Xhosa language and Southern Bantu languages

Southern Ndebele language

isiNdebele, also known as Southern Ndebele is an African language belonging to the Mbo group of Bantu languages, spoken by the Ndebele people of South Africa. Xhosa language and Southern Ndebele language are languages of South Africa and Nguni languages.

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Subject–verb–object word order

In linguistic typology, subject–verb–object (SVO) is a sentence structure where the subject comes first, the verb second, and the object third. Xhosa language and subject–verb–object word order are subject–verb–object languages.

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Suffix

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.

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Taa language

Taa, also known as ǃXóõ (also spelled ǃKhong and ǃXoon),The Taa pronunciation of "ǃXóõ" can be heard in, repeated from 0′16″ to 0′24″.

See Xhosa language and Taa language

Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

See Xhosa language and Tanzania

Tenuis consonant

In linguistics, a tenuis consonant is an obstruent that is voiceless, unaspirated and unglottalized.

See Xhosa language and Tenuis consonant

The Click Song

Qongqothwane is a traditional song of the Xhosa people of South Africa.

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The Lion King

The Lion King is a 1994 American animated musical coming-of-age drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution under the Walt Disney Pictures banner.

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The Lion King (2019 film)

The Lion King is a 2019 American musical drama film that is a photorealistically animated remake of the traditionally-animated 1994 film The Lion King.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Tone (linguistics)

Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.

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Tswa–Ronga languages

The Tswa–Ronga languages (or just Tsonga) are a group of closely related Southern Bantu languages spoken in Southern Africa chiefly in southern Mozambique, northeastern South Africa and southeastern Zimbabwe. Xhosa language and Tswa–Ronga languages are languages of South Africa.

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Tyhume River

The Tyhume River is a river in Amathole District Municipality in the central part of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

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U-Carmen eKhayelitsha

U-Carmen eKhayelitsha is a 2005 South African operatic film directed and produced by Mark Dornford-May.

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Umngqusho

Umngqusho is a South African dish based on samp and sugar beans, usually served with hard body chicken which is called umleqwa in isiXhosa.

See Xhosa language and Umngqusho

Velar consonant

Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum").

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Verb

A verb is a word (part of speech) that in syntax generally conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand).

See Xhosa language and Verb

Voice (phonetics)

Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).

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Voice onset time

In phonetics, voice onset time (VOT) is a feature of the production of stop consonants.

See Xhosa language and Voice onset time

Voicelessness

In linguistics, voicelessness is the property of sounds being pronounced without the larynx vibrating.

See Xhosa language and Voicelessness

Volta–Congo languages

Volta–Congo is a major branch of the Atlantic–Congo family.

See Xhosa language and Volta–Congo languages

Vowel length

In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived length of a vowel sound: the corresponding physical measurement is duration.

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Wakanda

Wakanda, officially the Kingdom of Wakanda, is a country appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Western Cape

The Western Cape (Wes-Kaap; iNtshona-Koloni) is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country.

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Word order

In linguistics, word order (also known as linear order) is the order of the syntactic constituents of a language.

See Xhosa language and Word order

Xhosa calendar

The following is a list of timekeeping terminology in the isiXhosa language. Xhosa language and Xhosa calendar are Nguni languages and Xhosa culture.

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Xhosa people

The Xhosa people, or Xhosa-speaking people are a Bantu ethnic group native to South Africa.

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Yeyi language

Yeyi (autoethnonym Shiyɛyi) is a Bantu language spoken by many of the approximately 50,000 Yeyi people along the Okavango River in Namibia and Botswana. Xhosa language and Yeyi language are click languages.

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Zambia

Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa.

See Xhosa language and Zambia

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.

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Zulu language

Zulu, or IsiZulu as an endonym, is a Southern Bantu language of the Nguni branch spoken and indigenous to Southern Africa. Xhosa language and Zulu language are languages of South Africa, Nguni languages and subject–verb–object languages.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xhosa_language

Also known as Bomwana dialect, History of the Xhosa language, Hlubi dialect, ISO 639:xh, ISO 639:xho, ISiXhosa language, IsiXhosa, Mpondomise dialect, Ndlambe dialect, Ulwimi isiXhosa, Xhosa alphabet, Xhosa phonology, Xhosan language, Xosa language.

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Xhosa language, the Glossary

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See also

Click languages

Nguni languages

Xhosa culture

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