Botswanan

adjective

Bo·tswa·nan bät-ˈswä-nən

: of, relating to, or characteristic of Botswana or its people

Botswanan noun

plural Botswanans

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1967, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of Botswanan was in 1967

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