Tswana

WALS coordinates: 24° S, 26° E

spoken in Botswana, South Africa

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Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
27A Reduplication Full reduplication only Morphology
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111A Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound Simple Clauses
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129A Hand and Arm Different Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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138A Tea Words derived from Min Nan Chinese te Lexicon
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