Hlubi is a minor
Bantu language
The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu people of Central, Southern, Eastern africa and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.
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of
South Africa
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, traditionally considered a dialect of
Swazi.
It is spoken in
South Africa
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, near where the
Xhosa,
Sotho, and
Phuthi languages meet at the
Orange River
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and the southern point of
Lesotho
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. The scattered
Hlubi people
The Hlubi people or AmaHlubi are an Nguni ethnic group native to Southern Africa, with the majority of population found in KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa.
List of AmaHlubi kings
Origins
The Hlubi, similar to o ...
speak several languages, including
Swazi, and the Hlubi dialect of Xhosa in the former Bantustan of
Ciskei
Ciskei (, or ) was a Bantustan for the Xhosa people-located in the southeast of South Africa. It covered an area of , almost entirely surrounded by what was then the Cape Province, and possessed a small coastline along the shore of the India ...
.
References
Nguni languages
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