Setswana

Setswana is the language of the Tswana peoples of the southern African interior. Communities such as the Batlhaping combined cattle keeping and cultivation, living in settlements governed by chiefs. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, travellers from the Cape encountered the Batlhaping at Dithakong. The missionary Robert Moffat later worked among them at Kuruman, learning Setswana and publishing a spelling book and catechism in 1826. His translation of the Gospel of Luke appeared in 1830.