THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MAJOR BATSWANA🇿🇦 AND MINOR BATSWANA🇧🇼..

Even us here is SA , we are "Motswana", it's just that we are busy.... being South African is a full time job on its own... we need to keep fit...other things slide in the process.😎

@BoogieHarrySA That is the correct way of saying it Motswana Mopedi Mosotho But other people who are not familiar with our language just call you Tswana or Pedi.

It's the same with us too though. The tf is she on about. We use those prefixes too.

Actually, in South Africa we do say it the correct way, if speaking in the language of instance, it is only truncated when saying it from an English perspective i.e. "I am Tswana / Zulu / Xhosa" that's from English from the language "Ke motswana / Ngingumzulu / Ndingumxhosa"

Prefixes only matter when speaking in our vernac. When speaking English, we don’t put those prefixes.

Ke MoPedi, but when I say it in English, “I’m Pedi”. It’s a thing. Similarly with BaSotho etc.

As a Motswana from SA I only use Tswana when I fill in information that requires my home language. E.g Home Language: Tswana. Other than that Ke Motswana re Batswana ko gae.

But that’s exactly how Batswana from South Africa talk, that Tswana thing I’ve seen it only on some job application, Ke Batswana ba bua Setswana

But that’s because of code-switching. If they’re speaking English, it makes sense to say “I am Tswana” because in English, “Tswana” functions as the identity noun on its own. But in Setswana, the noun-class prefix matters, which is why we say ke Motswana and not ke Tswana. English doesn’t preserve Bantu noun-class prefixes vice versa.

Its english that caused this, in IsiZulu there are prefixes also, nginguMzulu or ngiwuMzulu, not ngi Zulu, but in English it is acceptable to say I'm Zulu, which literally translates to ngi Zulu, which makes no sense to uMzulu,but in english it makes sense to a Zulu, seeeee

Gatwe minor Batswana. Bitch, we know more about our culture than you and we're take our culture very serious unlike you people. You don't even practice Setswana traditions mme o claim to be major Batswana. You don't even know the traditions. Wa tsenwa boy.

What’s minor and major Batswana ???what do you mean 😩there is nothing like that

You really are wrong. The prefex is often left out maybe because it is convenient for others to call them “Tswana” but we all know there is no tribe called Tswanas. Ka seTswana batswana ke Batswana irrespective of the country they come from. The same applies to Basotho.

I think she is referring to how it is expressed in the English language rather than the various SA languages. That’s why she tries to explain it using the example “I am Xhosa” with “NdingumXhosa”.

Ke go telela fela tšeo Kgaetšedi! People do that deliberately, they call us Lepedi, Letswana, but they never use LE when it comes to them simple because they regard themselves as superior. You are correct, Motho [Mopedi, Motswana, Mosotho] Polelo [ Sepedi, Setswana, Sesotho]

A and Mo on that sentence is a repeat of the same. "I am moTswana" you mean Not "I am a moTswana" please baby girl, comprehension

You can't apply setswana grammatical laws in the English language. We say "I'm Tswana" when speaking English because the English grammatical laws apply. However we don't say "ke Tswana" we say "ke motswana" that's when the setswana grammatical laws apply, when speaking setswana.

Owaii.. Wa bua mme kana ga ba go utlwe Mma, bao ba SA ba nna ba akantse di CIT heist hela🤦‍♂️

This woman failed to understand how diverse SA is The Batswana ppl l know say ke Motswana, not ke Tswana That just doesn’t make sense

Ey la lapisa man 🤦‍♂️

It’s a South African thing she wouldn’t get it and it shows she’s foreign

Mxm…. It’s the same for South’a Batswana. Potatoes Potatoes

The prefixes don’t make sense when speaking in English. We use prefixes in all our languages when speaking in said languages

Gate areng motho o

Ka sekgoa I am a Tswana . In Setswana ke Motswana. Simple .

This isn’t complicated, it’s similar to French people who speak French as a language vs people who are nationally French but speak French. Similar to Spanish people. The names of your countries have your language as part of the name.

Here in south africa we dont like being told ,we are what we say we are.

Chomi ke Mosotho but when we introduce ourselves in English thats when we say I’m Sotho. Le batswana it’s same . Ke Motswana “ I’m tswana “ we only do it English . Ha re buwa se haye we use “ Mo” “Ba” “Se” .

Ke a goutlwa, this thing called "tswana" is what we taught by whites, which is also very strange for me. The subject we do in school is called Tswana NOT Setswana, I dont get it. Anyhow nna ke Motswana e bile ke buwa Setswana

We do say we are Batswana, we just saving characters.

By South Africa she means Gauteng.

Wa gafa o, we only say that because it doesn't sound right. Re Batswana, saying it in English is like extending it when you say I'm Motswana

What nonsense is this tswetse tse tswe tsa tswa tswee tsi tswe, kao fela ke batswana of course if she alone i call her Motswana