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  URI(s)

  • http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138357
  • info:lc/authorities/sh85138357
  • http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85138357#concept

• Instance Of

  • MADS/RDF Topic
  • MADS/RDF Authority
  • SKOS Concept

• Scheme Membership(s)

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings

• Collection Membership(s)

  • LCSH Collection - Authorized Headings
  • LCSH Collection - General Collection
  • LCSH Collection - May Subdivide Geographically

• Variants

  • Batswana (African people)
  • Batswanas (African people)
  • Bechuana (African people)
  • Beetjuans (African people)
  • Chuana (African people)
  • Coana (African people)
  • Cuana (African people)
  • Tswana (Bantu tribe)
  • Tswanas (African people)

• Broader Terms

  • Ethnology--Botswana
  • Ethnology--South Africa
  • Ethnology--Zimbabwe
  • Sotho (African people)

• Narrower Terms

  • Bafokeng (African people)
  • Hurutshe (African people)
  • Kgatla (African people)
  • Kwena (African people)
  • Tlhaping (African people)

• Earlier Established Forms

  • Tswana (Bantu tribe)

• Sources

  • found: Wikipedia, May 4, 2011: Tswana people (The Tswana (Tswana: Batswana, singular Motswana) are a Southern African people; a common spelling and pronunciation of Batswana was Bechuana)
  • found: The free online dictionary, May 4, 2011: Batswana (n. pl. Batswana or Batswanas; see: Tswana) Tswana (n. pl. Tswana or Tswanas; 1. a member of a Bantu people inhabiting Botswana and western South Africa; also called Batswana, Bechuana)

• LC Classification

  • DT1768.T89
  • DT2458.T89
  • DT2913.T78

• Change Notes

  • 1986-02-11: new
  • 2011-08-30: revised

• Alternate Formats

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  • JSON (MADS/RDF and SKOS/RDF)
  • MADS - RDF/XML
  • MADS - N-Triples
  • MADS/RDF - JSON
  • SKOS - RDF/XML
  • SKOS - N-Triples
  • SKOS - JSON
  • MADS/XML
  • MARC/XML

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