Surname · Xitsonga
Xipalana
Also spelled Xipelene.
A xivongo of the Vatsonga, recorded in Xitsonga, which the sources also call Tsonga.
Xitsonga
- PeopleVatsonga
- Totem nyarhi (buffalo), rarely used; the sub-c — Malungana: the poem ends with the xithopo Dzungeni, the common ancestor, which s
- Grouping Sub-clan (nyimba) of Nkuna
- Surnames recorded Xipalana
- Places recorded Sedan, Ritavi, Limpopo
Part of Swivongo: Tsonga clan names
Written down by families and by the people who recorded them.
Where This Came From
- Shidjabadjaba John Malungana, Vuphato: Praise Poetry in Xitsonga (D.Litt. et Phil. thesis), 1994 — https://ujcontent.uj.ac.za/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Vuphato---praise-poetry-in/9913242107691
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