- a member of a numerous people of Botswana and neighboring parts of South Africa.
- the language of the Tswana, a Bantu language.
- a member of a mixed Negroid and Bushman people of the Sotho group of southern Africa, living chiefly in Botswana
- the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family: the principal language of Botswana