Hlongwane Family History & Genealogy

History

Hlongwane is from Sono all these people were using the surname Sono but due to division in the family and various wars they had people scattered and some even changed their surname to one their father's name or great grand father or from the family tree, today is even written differently due to the language differences because some were assimilated to another tribe but the family tree is the same.

Name Origin

Sono, Hlungwani,and Hlongwane

Spellings & Pronunciations

Hlu-ngwa-ni, Hlo-ngoa-ne, So-no,

Nationality & Ethnicity

Mozambique, now all over the southern africa like South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, they are tshwa people (tribe) from central Africa, Bantu. they speak a language of the place where they are, be it sotho, Zulu, Swati or Tsonga not much is known about the Tsonga people because their History was recorded so late Thanks HP Junod and his Son who recorded their history Tshwa people, who Tsonga people and they speak xiTsonga, xiTsonga is a mixture of Tshwa, Rhonga and Thonga,

Famous People named Hlongwane

Philimon Hlungwane, Jomo Sono, Bamuza Sono, Victor Hlungwani, Sengani Hlongwane, Golbert Mafemani Hlongwane, Amukelani Adelia(Masungulo) Hlongwane

Early Hlongwanes

These are the earliest records we have of the Hlongwane family.