Surname · Xitsonga
Hlabi
Also spelled Ba-Hlabi, Vahlave.
A xivongo of the Vatsonga, recorded in Xitsonga, which the sources also call Tsonga.
Xitsonga
- PeopleVatsonga
- Grouping Dzonga-speaking cluster east of the Limpopo (Junod); VaHlave cluster (Wikipedia, uncited); Malungana counts Vahlave as one of the main dialect groups
- Surnames recorded Mapsanganyi / Maswanganyi, Tsungu, Mavundja / Mavundza, Nkwinika, Makamo, Ndhzove, Ntsumele, Mabunda
- Places recorded Limpopo, Shengan, Olifants, Mozambique
The Swiphato swa swivongo
Ba Nhlabi ba ku vengwa, Nhlabi ya Makamu ya Mavuse ya nkonwana Part of Swivongo: Tsonga clan names
Written down by families and by the people who recorded them.
Where This Came From
- Henri-Alexandre Junod, The Life of a South African Tribe, Vol. I: The Social Life, Imprimerie Attinger Freres, Neuchatel — https://archive.org/details/lifeofsouthafric01junouoft
- Shidjabadjaba John Malungana, Vuphato: Praise Poetry in Xitsonga (D.Litt. et Phil. thesis), 1994 — https://ujcontent.uj.ac.za/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Vuphato---praise-poetry-in/9913242107691
- VIV Lifestyle Magazine (Shitshembiso Mabasa Pty Ltd), Xana a wu swi tiva? [Swivongo Edition] (and reader comments, 2019-2020), 2017, vivmag.co.za — https://www.vivmag.co.za/xana-a-wu-swi-tiva-swivongo-edition/
- Wikipedia contributors, Tsonga people, read 2026-09-05, Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsonga_people
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