Taung tribe

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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 ]}

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