Botswanan 2 I was trying to find a way of editing the table on the right but couldn t find a way to do it The use of words such as Botswanese or Botswanan is offensive and inaccurate Can someone please edit the right table and write Motswana instead of Botswanan for Demonym Also our national language is Setswana not Tswana Maybe someone could make these corrections Preceding unsigned comment added by talk contribs Thanks I ve done the first It s unfair to call it offensive This is just how language works In English the language is also called Tswana and it s not inaccurate We don t call Latin Lingua Latina and French Fran ais The prefix is an aspect of Tswana grammar which we are not using And Tswana has its own word for English One thing though how would you distinguish between a Motswana person from Botswana and any member of the Tswana ethnic group one fifth of the people of Botswana are NOT ethnic Batswana many are Khoisan white other Bantu tribes and about 2 3 of ethnic Batswana live in South Africa This justifies a word Botswanan whose meaning is at least obvious to any English speaker and will continue to be used whether the Batswana it or not And the Batswana can continue to call English by their name for it It won t be considered offensive or inaccurate Preceding unsigned comment added by 41 185 138 65