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Name: Tswana
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Chuana; Coana; Cuana; Setswana; Sechuana; Beetjuans; Tsiwaha; Tshwana; Chwana; Rolon; Tswana, si-; Cwana
Spoken in: South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe
Number of speakers: 1,070,000 in Botswana (Johnstone 1993). Population total all countries: 4,521,700 (Ethnologue)
Code: tsn
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup: Tswana (tswa)
Child Dialects: Melete (tsn-mel) Rolong; Roloŋ, si- (tsn-rol) Tlharo (tsn-tlr) Thlaro (tsn-tha) Kwena (tsn-kwe) Tlhaping (tsn-tlh) Tawana (tsn-taw) Tlokwa (tsn-tlo) Ngwatu; Ngwato; Mangwato; Maŋgwato, si- (tsn-ngu) Ngwaketse (tsn-ngw) Kgatla; Ngatla; Kgatla, si- (tsn-kga) Lete (tsn-let) Hurutshe (tsn-hur) Tlahaping; Tlapi; Thlaping (tsn-tla)

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