- a member of a Nguni people of eastern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa.
- the Bantu language of the Xhosa.
- a member of a cattle-rearing Negroid people of southern Africa, living chiefly in South Africa
- the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family: one of the Nguni languages, closely related to Swazi and Zulu and characterized by several clicks in its sound system
