Harshen Tswana

Tswana, wanda aka fi sani da sunansa na asali Setswana, kuma a baya an rubuta Sechuana a Turanci, yare ne na Bantu da ake magana a Kudancin Afirka da kusan mutane miliyan 8.2. Y^[2] cikin dangin yaren Bantu a cikin reshen Sotho-Tswana na Zone S (S.30), kuma yana da alaƙa da yarukan Sotho na Arewa da Kudancin, da kuma yaren Kgalagadi da yaren Lozi.

Setswana harshen hukuma ne na Botswana, Afirka ta Kudu, da Zimbabwe . Harshen yare ne a Botswana da wasu sassan Afirka ta Kudu, musamman lardin Arewa maso Yamma . Ana samun kabilun Tswana a fiye da larduna biyu na Afirka ta Kudu, musamman a Arewa maso Yamma, inda kusan mutane miliyan hudu ke magana da yaren. Iri-iri na birni, wanda wani yanki ne kuma ba Setswana na yau da kullun ba, ana kiransa Pretoria Sotho, kuma shine babban yare na musamman na birnin Pretoria . Larduna uku na Afirka ta Kudu da ke da mafi yawan masu magana su ne Gauteng (kimanin 11%), Arewacin Cape, da Arewa maso Yamma (sama da 70%). Har zuwa 1994, mutanen Tswana na Afirka ta Kudu ƴan asalin Bophuthatswana ne, ɗaya daga cikin ƴan bantu na mulkin wariyar launin fata . Harshen Setswana a lardin Arewa maso Yamma yana da bambance-bambancen da ake magana da shi bisa ga kabilun da aka samu a cikin al'adun Tswana (Bakgatla, Barolong, Bakwena, Batlhaping, Bahurutshe, Bafokeng, Batlokwa, Bataung, da Batswapong, da sauransu); Harshen da aka rubuta ya kasance iri ɗaya. Hakanan ana samun ƙaramin adadin masu magana a Zimbabwe (lambar da ba a sani ba) da Namibiya (kusan mutane 10,000).

1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Harshen Tswana". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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