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Setswana

/sɛtˈswɑːnə//sɛtˈswɑnə/

Setswana proper noun: a language spoken widely in Southern Africa, mainly in Botswana and South Africa in the Northern Cape, the central and western Free State and in the North West province, and also, to a lesser extent, in Namibia, also known as Tswana.

Proper noun

Setswana

  1. A language spoken widely in Southern Africa, mainly in Botswana and South Africa in the Northern Cape, the central and western Free State and in the North West province, and also, to a lesser extent, in Namibia, also known as Tswana.
    Synonyms:
    Tswana

Synonyms of Setswana

Origin of Setswana

Borrowed from Tswana Setswana.

Words that rhyme with Setswana

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Questions about Setswana

What does Setswana mean?
Setswana means a language spoken widely in Southern Africa, mainly in Botswana and South Africa in the Northern Cape, the central and western Free State and in the North West province, and also, to a lesser extent, in Namibia, also known as Tswana.
What part of speech is Setswana?
Setswana is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Setswana?
Setswana is pronounced /sɛtˈswɑːnə/ (UK).

Words near Setswana in the dictionary

  1. setscrews
  2. Setser
  3. Setsers
  4. Setsubun
  5. Setsuko
  6. Setswana
  7. sett
  8. settability
  9. settable
  10. Sette
  11. setted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Setswana (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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