THE RELEVANCE OF THE SETSWANA PROVERB TO THE 21ST CENTURY SPEAKER OF SETSWANA

The most important knowledge that people have is knowledge borne from long experience and passed from one generation to another in their languages about their local environment and surroundings. Local proverbs are one of the ways in which local knowledge is embodied and transmitted in a community....

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Published in:	Proverbium
Main Author:	Mompoloki Mmangaka Bagwasi
Format:	Article
Language:	German
Published:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Univeristy of Osijek 2015-08-01
Subjects:	African Setswana proverbs contemporary speaker of Setswana intertextuality modernity truth
Online Access:	https://naklada.ffos.hr/casopisi/index.php/proverbium/article/view/717

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