Tswana

WALS coordinates: 24° S, 26° E

spoken in South Africa, Botswana

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Tswana
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Setswana,
    • Sestwana
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References  
    Morphology
    Reduplication Full reduplication only
    Simple Clauses
    Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Different
    Finger and Hand Different
    Tea Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te