Motswana

E261308

A Motswana is an individual belonging to the Tswana ethnic group, primarily associated with the country of Botswana and neighboring regions of Southern Africa.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Batswana 1
Motswana canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf demonym
ethnonym
associatedWithCapitalCity Gaborone
associatedWithCountry Botswana
associatedWithCurrency Botswana pula
associatedWithEthnicGroup Tswana people
associatedWithFlag Flag of Botswana
associatedWithGovernment government of Botswana
surface form: Government of Botswana
associatedWithLanguage Setswana
Setswana
surface form: Tswana language
associatedWithRegion northern Botswana
surface form: Botswana–Namibia borderlands

northern Botswana
surface form: Botswana–South Africa borderlands

Southern Africa
belongsToEthnolinguisticGroup Setswana
surface form: Tswana
belongsToNation Batswana nation
citizenshipTermOf Botswana
surface form: Republic of Botswana
continent Africa
countryOfCitizenship Botswana
culturalRegion Kalahari Basin
ethnicIdentity Setswana
surface form: Tswana
ethnicLanguageFamily Bantu languages
ethnicMacroFamily Niger–Congo languages
surface form: Niger-Congo languages
ethnicMajorityIn Botswana
hasCollectiveIdentity Tswana people
surface form: Batswana
hasCulturalPractice bogwera (traditional initiation, historically)
bojale (traditional initiation for women, historically)
hasGenderedForm Motswana man
Motswana woman
isSingularFormOf Tswana people
surface form: Batswana
legalStatus citizen of Botswana (in civic context)
nativeTo Botswana
parts of Namibia
parts of South Africa
parts of Zimbabwe
pluralForm Batswana
refersTo individual of the Tswana ethnic group
relatedEthnicGroup Bakwena
Bapedi
Basotho people
surface form: Basotho
relatedGroup Sotho-Tswana peoples
religion African traditional religion (minority)
Christianity (majority)
traditionalLivelihood arable farming
cattle herding
usedInLanguage English
Setswana
writingSystemForLanguage Latin alphabet (for Setswana)

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tswana people singularForm Motswana
Bapedi relatedEthnicGroup Motswana
this entity surface form: Batswana