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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.
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