Bhaca
name, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any member of the Bhaca people.
Proper Noun
- 1 A Nguni people of the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces of South Africa who descend from the 17th–18th-century chief Zelemu of the Pongola valley.
- 2 The Tekela language spoken natively by the Bhaca, traditionally considered a dialect of Swazi.
Etymology
From -Bhaca, the common element of the Bhaca amaBhaca, iBhaca, isiBhaca, and KwaBhaca.