In the southeast, in eastern South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and southern Mozambique, they were adopted from a Tuu language or languages by the languages of the Nguni cluster ( especially Zulu, Xhosa, and Phuthi, but also to a lesser extent Swazi and Ndebele ), and spread from them in a reduced fashion to the Zulu-based pidgin Fanagalo, Sesotho, Tsonga, Ronga, the Mzimba dialect of Tumbuka, and more recently to Ndau and urban varieties of Pedi, where the spread of clicks is an ongoing process.

Although the western stream Kalundu tradition was ancestral to Shona ceramic wares, the closest relationships of the ancestral Shona language according to many linguists were with a southern division of eastern Bantu – such languages as the southeastern languages ( Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, Tsonga ), Nyasa and Makwa.

Nguni languages, is heavily influenced by the Xhosa language.

The Nguni languages of Southern Africa, including Zulu and Xhosa, evolved from the Bantu languages of the Congo area, which do not use clicks.

During and after the Nguni migration to Southern Africa, the Nguni came into frequent contact with speakers of the Khoisan languages, which make abundant use of click sounds.

Over time, the Nguni languages started to incorporate click sounds, until they became the normal consonants they are today.

The name Imfundo is from the Nguni languages of southern Africa.

Nguni languages such as Zulu have an implosive b alongside a series of allophonically ejective stops.

The Nguni languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken in southern Africa by the Nguni people.

Nguni languages include Xhosa, Zulu, Swati, Hlubi, Phuthi and Ndebele ( both Southern Transvaal Ndebele and Northern Ndebele ).

The Nguni languages are closely related, and in many instances different languages are mutually intelligible ; in this way, Nguni languages might better be construed as a dialect continuum than as a cluster of separate languages.

He is widely credited with uniting many of the Northern Nguni people, specifically the Mtetwa Paramountcy and the Ndwandwe into the Zulu Kingdom, the beginnings of a nation that held sway over the portion of southern Africa between the Phongolo and Mzimkhulu Rivers, and his statesmanship and vigour marked him as one of the greatest Zulu kings.

The common term for the arrangement in southern Africa is lobolo, from the Nguni language, a term often used in central and western Africa as well.

In scholarly literature on southern African languages, the linguistic classificatory category " Nguni " is traditionally considered to subsume two subgroups: " Zunda Nguni " and " Tekela Nguni.

Nguni speaking tribes ( primarily Zulu and Xhosa ) occupied the east and southern coastal regions, while a series of Sotho kingdoms covered the southern portion of the plateau ( Free State Province and parts of Gauteng ).

The Nguni cattle breed is indigenous to southern Africa.

Such superclose vowels would be represented in the same way in the phonetic transcription of Phuthi ( but are given as < î û > in the proposed Phuthi orthography ).</ ref > is a Nguni Bantu language spoken in southern Lesotho and areas in South Africa adjacent to the same border.

But within southern Africa Phuthi is viewed ambivalently as being either a Nguni or a Sotho – Tswana language, given the very high level of hybridity displayed in all subsystems of the grammar ( lexicon, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax ).

Earlier Khoisan populations were absorbed by Bantu peoples, such as the Sotho and Nguni, but the Bantu expansion stopped at the region with winter rainfall.

Although Nguni / Xhosa styles of fighting may use only two sticks, variations of Bantu / Nguni stick fighting throughout Southern Africa incorporate shields as part of the stick fighting weaponry.

They were superseded by Bantu and Nguni peoples with their own vocabularies of art forms.

Within a subset of Southern Bantu, the label " Nguni " is used both genetically ( in the linguistic sense ) and typologically ( quite apart from any historical significance that it may accurately or inaccurately imply ).

Nguni cattle are known for their fertility and resistance to diseases, being the favourite breed amongst the indigenous Bantu people of Southern Africa ( South Africa, Swaziland, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Angola ).

The equivalent language used by homosexual South African men who speak Bantu languages is called IsiNgqumo, and is based on a Nguni lexicon.

The Northern Ndebele language, isiNdebele, Sindebele, or Ndebele is an African language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, and spoken by the Ndebele or Matabele people of Zimbabwe.

The Northern and Southern Ndebele languages are not variants of the same language ; though they both fall in the Nguni group of Bantu languages, Northern Ndebele is essentially a dialect of Zulu, and the older Southern Ndebele language falls within a different subgroup.

But Phuthi is genetically — along with Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele and Swati — certainly a Nguni language.

Further, given the range of lexical, phonological and even low-level phonetic effects that appear to be shared almost exclusively with Swati, Phuthi can be classified uncontroversially as a Tekela Nguni language, that is, in the subset of Nguni that includes Swati, some versions of Southern Ndebele, and the Eastern Cape remnant languages, Bhaca and Hlubi.

Phuthi noun class prefixes are nearly all of the shape CV-( that is, they follow the Sotho consonant-vowel shape, not the general Nguni VCV-shape ).

Phuthi has a system of click consonants, typical for nearly all Nguni, at the three common articulation points: dental, alveolar and lateral alveolar.

Some, moving north-east, ' behind ' the Nguni societies ( Xhosa and Zulu ), established the first independent republic, Natalia.

The ancestors of Nguni cattle were brought by the Xhosa, Zulu and Swazi people, during their migration to South Africa between 600 and 700 AD.

Four of these are Nguni languages ( Zulu, Xhosa, Swati and Ndebele ) and three are Sotho – Tswana languages ( Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho and Tswana ).

These languages include English, Afrikaans, the Nguni languages Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele, and Swazi, as well as the Sotho languages, which include Tswana, Sotho and Sotho sa Leboa.

* Zulu ( Nguni Tribe ) article

The Zulu and other Nguni tribes of South Africa were renowned for their use of the assegai.

Modern scholarship has pushed estimated dates of Sobhuza's birth and accession to the kingship backward in line with general reinterpretations of oral traditions about Northern Nguni state formation and the rise of the Zulu Kingdom, and placed the date of Sobhuza's death at 1839, rather than 1836 as Bryant had argued.

* Soured milk natural yogurt ( known as amasi in Ndebele or Nguni languages in South Africa, mukaka wakakora in Shona, or lacto )

In the 1830s Nguni speaking Ndebele raiders displaced them from Khami and many of the other sites they had established.

Matshobana, son of chief Mangete, was the chief of the Khumalo tribe: a clan of Nguni people living near the Black Umfolozi river in kwaZulu, in South Africa, and was the father of Mzilikazi the founder of the Ndebele ( Matabele ) kingdom in Zimbabwe.

Nguni stick fighting ( also known as donga, or dlala ' nduku, which literally translates as playing sticks ) is a martial art traditionally practiced by teenage Nguni herdboys in South Africa.