Nguni

Dictionary: Ngu·ni (əng-gū'nē) pronunciation

n., pl., Nguni, or -nis.

A member of a group of peoples of southern and southeast Africa, including the Swazi, Ndebele, Xhosa, and Zulu.
Any of the Bantu languages of the Nguni.

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Cluster of related ethnic groups living in South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe. They include the Xhosa, Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele. They speak very closely related Bantu languages — some of which are unique among Niger-Congo languages in having click sounds, absorbed from contact with their Khoisan-speaking neighbours. The Nguni were dispersed from their original homeland in what is now Eastern Cape province and KwaZulu-Natal by the Mfecane disturbances of the 1820s and the expansion of European power.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a group of southern Bantu languages

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