Omang? People of the Rain Queen 

That is what I thought when I first heard this.

Indeed. the language seems to have both elements of xivhenda and sepedi or sesotho I'm not sure

Just look deep into clans that build the tribes you'll see how diverse we are

@@realeboga1681+ shona, Africa is one

Culture is man-made, Africans must move forward. We add no value to the world but do old relic traditions. Smh.

@@katlegomoatshe1312 What are western cultures adding besides hate, wars, sickness, sorrow and ultimately gruesome death?

@@thembisilemadlolo2802 So africans didn't have war, sickness, tribalism and sorrow before whites came? Cmon sesi

@@katlegomoatshe1312 the way you are saying this with affirmation as if you were there, "smh"

@@katlegomoatshe1312 your self hatred is loud

Please share the source about your tribe I want to do research

@@yeah9758 Sorry there is no source, we are classified under the Sotho tribe in the Zimbabwean constitution (on the languages section). That is probably the only document that hints at our existence.

@@diaxdiax4731 ouk. I am a venda by the way. I wanted to understand where my language was created and that is probably Zimbabwe and Congo

@@yeah9758 There are Venda people in our area. Am actually half Venda. You will find most of us in the Beit-Bridge area going northwards, all the way to Gwanda. I have heard 2 versions of my Venda history. The first is that, the Ndebele under Mzilikazi brought some of the Venda people when he moved from the south to modern Zimbabwe. The second version is not very clear but it involves the Kalanga people who have always lived in western Zimbabwe/Eastern Botswana, however, they might have moved from Central Africa at some point in time. My great grandma has passed on so I unfortunately have no way of getting more information for you.

@@diaxdiax4731 But what I heard is that venda people in SA came with Dimbanyika

*kingdoms

They are not your tribe , they have integrated with other tribes like Bapedi , Venda “, Tsonga,Ndebele They are not just Balobedu they are new group.

​@@Kgoki890hello listen very well..they are from Rhodesian.uyisdom shame😊

​@@Kgoki890hello open your ears to the narrator.their language is different from Sepedi.sdom

Learn history wena..selfhate.

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I’m from the same area (Burgersfort)

@@malindinkosi888 I was born in Dilokong hospital, grew up Ga makofane, primary at Ga Rantho (ngwaabe), secondary back at Ribacross, tertiary at witbank, lived in siyabuswa(kwandebele) and marblehall, that is why I learned different people.

Blue Moon Woooow I was born at Maandagshoek, Ga-Mpuru and grew up mostly at Steelpoort and Mashifane Park

Ke nna Mopedi wa Ga-Sekhukhune kua Mothopong wa Batau ba Ga-Nchabeleng. Ke setlogolo sa Bakone ba go kua Tubatse tletlolo tlase ga meetse a mathata Bokone maropolla ntswe. Leina ke Mosetengwane Mologadi

@@Mowizzy1 shateeeeee, ke tshaba baditi.

Is there a connection between the Rozwi people and Rozvi people as both are from Zimbabwe..

@SICELO BHEKI BAFANA KHUMALO that true

O apa nnete mooo.. Ba tshanxa bo ba

Same

@@TN-my7tr I'm a Rozvi from Zimbabwe...

@@tana77100 that's awesome....here are your cousins. Some are in Zambia.

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@Thabiso M we do sound like venda and sepedi but we belong to none of those tribes like you said we do sound like sotho and lozi Dont forget that sepedi is a dialect of sesotho so ..... Bro but we are our own tribe ....

@Thabiso M nna waits ke eng ....sharp ge have it your way we do have words which I are similar to those of the venda and pedi tribe

@Thabiso M mara do you hear what you are saying though ....we both agree gore sepedi is a direct dialect of sesotho if do aichaye da

@Thabiso M kanti nna kee tseng? .....kaor nna le wena re ova ntwe1 😒

O itira motho warra. Gobaneng o ngwadile comment eo ka sejahlaphi?

@@PTJ_S Language is a mode of human communication, it doesn't matter if I speak Zulu or Shona, the message is the same, you must learn to read the contents, not the language, nothing special about English.

"Why can't they write tshivenda instead of pedi?" That's a very stupid question! Yes we did sepedi at school because our language is not official! How do you expect us not to incorporate it with our language? Listen to the lobedu that is spoken by those old ladies, that is pure Khelobedu! That man probably went to school and got influenced by the pedi that he did at school. "Moyanana" which is another word for "ngwana" means the same thing in both khelobedu and Venda. Another word is "mohlanga" which is equivalent to "mošimane" in pedi. You clearly don't know what you are talking about.

It was from King Thulare and allhis children Sekwati and Sekhukhune who were paying tribute to Queen Modjadji all these years.I don't understand why you say Bapedi marginalised any tribe in Limpopo.The Amandebele of Zebedieala too did sepedi in school,but there was no marginalisation they stick totheir language as soon as they leave the classroom.Khelobedu is closer toTshivenda and many languages of central and eastern africa.All they are asking for or need is to be themselves because they are not Bapedi,but Balobedu!

@Siya Mzam The spokesperson is trying to be intelligible that is why he has not opted to speak in deep khelobedu.They all would do it many a times!

They are talking about our history. We are related to vhaVhenda and Barotse/BoLozi. There is no book written in Sepedi. Sepedi is a dielect. Setlokwa,Sepulana,Sepedi and other Sotho related dielects are combined to make what we are taught in school. Somebody naughty,decided to change Northern Sotho with Sepedi after 2000. Even Bapedi don't speak the same. Masemola,Nkoane ETC,dont speak the same.

@@Matomepule Balobedi ke Balozi,more related to Vhaluvhu...Sepedi used to be a dialect with the parent language as North sotho or sesotho sa lebowa,jiki jiki after 1994 Sepedi is a boss of all other dialects of north sotho.I'm aware that there's a case going on were they want to reverse this story.

No. No, it isn't. All the languages you mentioned fall on the Sotho-Tswana dialect continuum. Khelobedu and Sepedi are Northern Sotho dialects but Khelobedu just bears a high Venda influence while Venda itself bears a very high Sepedi influence. Setswana, like Sepedi, is a Sotho-Tswana languages through and through with very minimal influence from the neighbouring non-Sotho-Tswana languages. Sesotho, sometimes called Southern Sotho, is also a Sotho-Tswana language, but has quite a bit of Nguni influence hence the clicks which are originally from the Khoi and San languages. If we look at the three main Sotho-Tswana languages, you'll quickly discover that Sepedi and Setswana are more Sotho than Sesotho especially in vocabulary.

@@pylchott9864 Okay point taken

@@pylchott9864 I couldn't agree more. ..O opile tlhogo lenaka

In the past all sotho sounding languages of limpopo were a dialects of a parent language called sesotho sa lebowa or north sotho.The created language is still spoken inThobela fm today.The language borrowed from all dialects to create a parent language.Sepedi,khelobedu,setlokwa,sepulana,seroka,sekoni including setebele sa lebowa were dialects of this parent language.When the new dispensation camein in 1994 i believe the minister of education was Dr Joe Phhahla,he is from gaSekhukhune,i think he is the one responsible for all these mess as he was trying to make a dialect dominate all other identities,so us as Balobedu we are very self loving,self rsepecting peoples who wont allow our age old identity to be swallowed by politicians and their agendas.Our languists are creating a script for posterity sothat our culture is preserved.Language is a tool of oppression,you cant fully emancipate if you describe oneself using a foreign language;in this case sepedi is a foreign language to Balobedu just like european languages.Ndaa!

Ndaaa ngwaana bomme

I think their language exist and properly spoken by the elder people if you can listen to them however the younger generation seem to speak Sepedi just like that gentlemen. His example of Khelobedu having "Kh" and Sepedi having "S" is similar to that of Zulu and Swati , in Zulu they use "Z" and in swati they use "Ts" and both are almost same but choose to exist independently.

@@msimisidlamini1603 that's true. The younger generations do sepedi as their home language at school since khelobedu is not official yet. Old people that never went to school can speak pure khelobedu and it really sounds like venda. The lobedu that younger people speak is more like pedi.

Khelobedu is not sepedi it is just influenced by pedi people. My pedi frieds used to not hear me when i speak khelobdu

Am proudly to be molobedu/molotswi twii,selowa/khelowa wee.

Wena we need to report you.Its soamazing gore be o tagilwe ke eng during lockdown?

I know 10 - Tsivenda is pending

@@malindinkosi888 welldone. To learn vhenda when you leave Ga mpuru pick me at Mooihoek then were drive to vhenda when u come back in two days you will be fine