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Made light of American replacing English language in Africa (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

shona

'language in africa' is the definition.
(language of Zimbabwe)

I don't understand the remainder of the clue.

(Other definitions for shona that I've seen before include "African language" , "Language of southern Africa" , "foreign language" , "Scotswoman'" , "Member of a Bantu people living in Zimbabwe" .)

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