Xhosa language
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Xhosa, formerly spelled Xosa and also known by its local name isiXhosa, is a Bantu language, indigenous to Southern Africa and one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Sign outside the AmaZink township theatre restaurant in Kayamandi, welcoming visitors in Xhosa
English missionary Henry Hare Dugmore helped translate the Bible into Xhosa in 1859
Nelson Mandela was a Xhosa and was a member of the royal family of the Thembu tribe
Trilingual government building sign in Afrikaans, English and Xhosa; Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Xhosa people
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The Xhosa people are an ethnic group in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and Lesotho. They are the second largest ethnic group in South Africa and are native speakers of the isiXhosa language
Xhosa language
…is Xhosa: Xhosa-speaking people have inhabited coastal regions of southeastern Africa since before the 16th century. They refer to themselves as the amaXhosa and their language as isiXhosa. Ancestors of the Xhosa migrated to the east coast of Africa and came across Khoisan-speaking people; "as a result of…
Xhosa graduates at Zonnebloem College in 1860, Cape Town, Cape Colony
Xhosa village in Eastern Cape.
An illustration of a group of Xhosa people by Thomas Baines (illustrated in 1848).
Xhosa spearman