Setswana language ~ puô ya Setswana

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Monday, November 09, 2009

Euphemisms & the distateful

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When society perceives a word as offensive, or an act or object to which such an object refers as embarrassing and generally disagreeable, t...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Ee mogolo!

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A national crisis is looming. Old people are dying and many young people don’t reach old age. Bagolo or adults, are thinning out at an alarm...
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Monday, August 31, 2009

Thanodi ya Setswana

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Batho betsho! Mo dikgweding tse di fetileng ke bone tshegetso e kgolo mo bontsing jwa lona. Ke a bo ke tshwere phage ka mangana ke kwala tha...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Ra reng ka pula?

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Read below and click on the images that follow. "Pula" is a Setswana word form which is used in Setswana to represent three relate...
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Monday, November 24, 2008

New Setswana Orthography book published!

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"Mokwalo o o lolameng wa Setswana" is the title of the new Setswana Orthography book. It was written by a team of the following Se...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

solegela!

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If you speak Setswana, you know "solegela molemo" means "benefit". So you would say for instance Go tla kwano go tlaa go...
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Thursday, August 16, 2007

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Some lexical variations in Shekgalagarhi dialects. Matsheng Lethakeng Shek...

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The following data is from Dr Monaka of the University of Botswana [Department of English] with minor additions from me. ...
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