| LC control no. | sh 85131017 |
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| Topical heading | Swazi (African people) |
| Variant(s) | Amaswazi (African people) Isiswazi (African people) Ngwane (African people) Siswazi (African people) Swati (African people) Swazi (African tribe) Tekela (African people) Tekeza (African people) |
| See also | Bantu-speaking peoples Ethnology--Eswatini Ethnology--Mozambique Ethnology--South Africa Ethnology--Zimbabwe Nguni (African people) |
| Found in | Britannica online, Feb. 8, 1999 (Mswati was the greatest of the Ngwane kings, and the Swazi (as the Ngwane came to be called) take their name from him.) Aug. 3, 2020 (Swazi, Bantu-speaking people inhabiting the tree-studded grasslands of Swaziland, the neighbouring Mpumalanga province of South Africa, and Mozambique; with the Zulu and the Xhosa, the Swazi form the southern Nguni ethnolinguistic group) Swazimuziek [SR] 1968: booklet (The Swazi, or as they prefer to call themselves, Ngwane) Marwick, B.A. The Swazi, 1940: p. xvi (the word Swazi is pronounced Swati by the people themselves but the form with z has a wide currency in writing and in speech among Europeans) p. 5 (in Swaziland and in the Transvaal) Jenkins, O.B. The Swazi (Swati) people of southeastern Africa, 2008, via WWW, viewed Aug. 3, 2020 (Swazis of the Mountain Kingdom of Swaziland; Swazis also live in the neighboring areas of Mozambique and South Africa. Those in South Africa outnumber those in Swaziland; ethnically, part of the Nguni People Group) Joshua Project WWW site, Sept. 16, 2020: Swazi (in Eswatini, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe) |
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