n.
or Swati
Bantu-speaking people inhabiting the grasslands of Swaziland and neighbouring regions of South Africa and Mozambique.
With the Zulu and the Xhosa , the Swazi (numbering more than two million) form the southern Nguni ethnolinguistic group. They are chiefly agriculturalists and pastoralists. The highest traditional political, economic, and ritual powers are shared by a hereditary male ruler and his mother. The king's wives and children are settled in royal villages, diplomatically dispersed throughout the territory.