South Africa's 11 official languages Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Xhosa,Ndebele, Venda, Swati, Sesotho, Sepedi, Tsonga and Tswana.
IsiNdebele is the least spoken of South Africa’s 11 official languages, and confined mainly to Mpumalanga and Gauteng. It is an Nguni language, like isiZulu, isiXhosa and siSwati. Also called Southern Ndebele, it is not to be confused with Northern Ndebele, more commonly known as Matabele,...
The language of peace.(languages that are spoken in South Africa)Lewis, Karen K
The language of the Tswana people is spoken mostly in Botswana, a country on the north-western border of South Africa, as well as in the Northern Cape province, the central and western Free State and in North West. Setswana was the first Sotho language to have a written form. ...
2003. Spoken language corpora for the nine official African languages of South Africa. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 21(4): 189-201.Allwood, J., & Hendrikse, A. (2003). Spoken language corpora for the nine official African languages of South Africa. In Southern ...
Travel all the way down the continent to South Africa, and you’ll find another unique Indo-European language with a complex history.Afrikaansis a nearly mutually intelligible offshoot of the Dutch spoken by the settlers who arrived at the Cape Colony in the mid-17th century, and it’s a ...
English (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first...
South Africa - Languages, Dialects, Afrikaans: The Black African population is heterogeneous, falling mainly into four linguistic categories. The largest is the Nguni, including various peoples who speak Swati (primarily the Swazi peoples) as well as tho
South Africa is the Rainbow Nation, a title that captures the country's cultural and ethnic diversity. The population of South Africa is one of the ...
What are the most spoken languages of South America? What is the balance between Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries in South America? And how many indigenous language speakers are there?This week, I’ve put South American languages under the spotlight. Read on to discover all manner of ...