Taung tribe

The Taung tribe or Bataung is a tribe of Bantu origin which speaks the Sotho-Tswana group of languages, namely, Setswana, Sepedi, Sesotho and Lozi.^{[ citation needed ]}

"Tau" is a Sotho-Tswana word meaning "Lion", and this animal is their totem.^{[ citation needed ]} "Bataung" is a plurality of a lion meaning "people of a place of Lions or Lion's den".^{[ citation needed ]}

Further reading

Sidney Berman, Analysing the Frames of the Bible: The Case of Setswana Translation of the Book of Ruth, Chapter 3, A History and Ethnographic Description of Batswana - Stellenbosch University. List of supporting thesis: Comaroff, Setiloane, Brown and others.

See also

• Barotseland