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Name: Tswa
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Shitshwa; Kitshwa; Sheetshwa; Xitshwa; Tshwa
Spoken in: South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique
Number of speakers: 1,160,000 in Mozambique (2006). Population total all countries: 1,180,000 (Ethnologue)
Code: tsc
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup: Tswa-Ronga (S.50); Group T.20 (tsrg)
Child Dialects: Tshwa; Dzibi-Dzonga; Dzonga-Dzibi; Dzivi; Xidzivi; Tswa, şi- (tsc-tsh) Hlengwe; Lengwe; Shilengwe; Lhengwe; Makwakwe-Khambana; Khambana-Makwakwe; Khambani; Hleŋgwe, şi- (tsc-hle) Ndxhonge (tsc-ndx) Nhayi (tsc-nha) Mandla (tsc-man)

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