History Of Xhosa
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History of xhosa. They form part of the southern nguni and speak mutually intelligible dialects of xhosa a bantu language of the niger congo family. These events were the longest running military action in the history of african colonialism. The reality of the conflicts between the europeans and xhosa.
In addition to the xhosa proper for whom the entire group was named. Xhosa men in tradional clothing talking in a village mountains behind the oldest known bones of the human species were discovered near the omo river in south western ethiopia and are bones of humans who lived about 200 000 years ago. An artist s depiction of the xhosa wars in 1851 showing khoikhoi and xhosa.
Xhosa is a member of the southeastern or nguni subgroup of the bantu group of the benue congo branch of the niger congo language family. History translation in english xhosa dictionary. The xhosa are part of the south african nguni migration which slowly moved south from the region around the great lakes xhosa people were already well established by the time of the dutch arrival in the mid 17th century and occupied much of eastern south africa from around the port elizabeth area to lands inhabited by zulu speakers south of the modern city of durban.
Xhosa is spoken as a first language by approximately 8 2 million people and by another 11 million as a second language in south africa mostly in eastern cape province western cape gauteng and. Xhosa language a bantu language spoken by seven million people in south africa especially in eastern province. The xhosa wars also known as the cape frontier wars or africa s 100 years war were a series of nine wars or flare ups from 1779 to 1879 between the xhosa kingdom and european settlers in what is now the eastern cape in south africa.
The xhosa are part of the south african nguni migration which slowly moved south from the region around the great lakes displacing the original khoisan hunter gatherers of southern africa. Xhosa ˈ k ɔː s ə ˈ k oʊ s ə xhosa pronunciation. Xhosa a group of mostly related peoples living primarily in eastern cape province south africa.
