Tswapong
A language of Botswana
| Population | 2,000 (Andersson and Janson 1997). |
| Region | Central District, Mahalapye Subdistrict; all villages east of Mahalapye. |
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Botswana |
| Alternate names | Setswapong |
| Dialects | Some similarities to Northern Sotho [nso] and some to Tswana [tsn], but it is not clearly a dialect of either. Some intelligibility to northern dialect speakers of Tswana (Sengwato and Setawana), and to speakers of a northwestern dialect of Northern Sotho. Some Birwa [brl] and Tswapong [two] say their varieties are more similar to one another than to Tswana or Northern Sotho. |
| Classification | Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, S, Sotho-Tswana (S.30) |
| Comments | Several groups: the Ramokgonami, Maifela, Chadibe, Sefbare, Tupsa. |
Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:
Academic Publications
HASSELBRING, Sue, author. 2000. A sociolinguistic survey of the languages of Botswana.
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