Editing Botswana (section)

==Etymology==
The country's name means "Land of the [[Tswana people|Tswana]]", referring to the dominant [[Ethnic groups in Botswana|ethnic group in Botswana]].<ref name=":7">{{Cite CIA World Factbook|country=Botswana|access-date=15 May 2007|year=2007}}</ref> The Constitution of Botswana recognizes a homogeneous Tswana state.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Monaka |first1=Kemmonye Collete |last2=Chebanne |first2=Anderson Monthusi |date=2019 |title=Setswana and the Building of a Nation State |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26907070 |journal=Anthropological Linguistics |volume=61 |issue=1 |pages=75–93 |jstor=26907070 |issn=0003-5483 |access-date=5 April 2023 |archive-date=7 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407005355/https://www.jstor.org/stable/26907070 |url-status=live}}</ref> The [[demonym]] ''Batswana'' was originally applied to the Tswana,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bolaane|first1=Maitseo|last2=Mgadla|first2=Part Themba|title=Batswana|date=1997|publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group|isbn=9780823920082|page=[https://archive.org/details/batswana00bola/page/n12 1]|url=https://archive.org/details/batswana00bola|url-access=registration}}</ref> and has also come to be used generally as a term for all citizens of Botswana.<ref name=bats>{{cite web|title=Botswanan or Batswana? It's complicated – Voices of Africa|url=http://voicesofafrica.co.za/botswanan-batswana-its-complicated/|publisher=Voices of Africa|access-date=6 January 2018|date=17 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180106231817/http://voicesofafrica.co.za/botswanan-batswana-its-complicated/|archive-date=6 January 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In [[Setswana]], ''Batswana'' is grammatically plural; its singular form, which can refer to a single member of the Tswana or to a single citizen of Botswana, is ''Motswana''.