Taung tribe
Bataung is the most senior tribe of Bantu origin which descends from its ancestor Mohurutshe and which speaks the Sotho-Tswana group of languages, namely, Setswana, Sepedi, Sesotho and Lozi.
The Bataung people are found in the Escarpment region of Southern Africa. Mohurutshe, Morotse, Bahurutshe, Barotse have a corresponding meaning. "Tau" is a Sotho-Tswana word meaning "lion", and this animal is their totem. "Bataung" is a plurality of a lion meaning "people of a place of Lions".
Further reading
Sidney Berman, Analysing the Frames of the Bible: The Case of Setswana Translation of the Book of Ruth, Chapter 3, A History and Ethnographic Description of Batswana - Stellenbosch University. List of supporting thesis: Comaroff, Setiloane, Brown and others.
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