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Surname · Xitsonga

Mabunda

Also spelled Ngove.

A xivongo of the Vatsonga, recorded in Xitsonga, which the sources also call Tsonga.

Xitsonga

  • PeopleVatsonga
  • Totem ngove (a large eland-like antelope) — Malungana: the people of hosi Bason Mabunda have the totemic clan name Ngove and
  • Grouping Vahlave (the performer's own statement in Malungana)
  • Surnames recorded Mabunda
  • Places recorded Sikhunyani, Dzumeri, Giyani, Limpopo

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Part of Swivongo: Tsonga clan names

Written down by families and by the people who recorded them.

Where This Came From

  • 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

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