南非语(South African languages)指的是南非地区所使用的语言。南非作为一个多民族的国家,拥有众多的语言,其中最常见的有官方语言如南非荷兰语、南非英语、南非科萨语、南非祖鲁语和南非瓦萨语等,还有其他少数民族所使用的语言。以下将从历史起源、世界分部、国际地位、各地方言、语法结构、学习技巧、学习难点、主要考点...
South Africa’s nine African official languages all fall into the Southern Bantu-Makua subfamily, part of the broad and branching Niger-Congo family of languages. The languages arrived here during the great expansion of Bantu-speaking people from West Africa eastwards and southwards into the rest ...
Many of the people speaking the African languages, share a common ancestry and that is why, next to the West European language group, there are two main African language groups. These are Nguni language group, comprising the IsiNdebele, IsiXhosa, siZulu and SiSwati languages and the Sotho ...
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
Today, the original dialect is still referred to as Kitchen Dutch, Cape Dutch or African Dutch. It was only in the late 19th century that Afrikaans was actually recognised as a separate language to Dutch. In 1961, Afrikaans became one of the official languages of the country, along with ...
People of African descent fall into several groups, based on their first language. South Africa has 11 official languages, nine of which are indigenous—Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Sotho, Swazi, Venda, Ndebele, Pedi, and Tsonga. Many blacks also speak Afrikaans (the first language of about 60% of...
Languages Ndebele Language Ndebele Language: A large proportion of South African folk are able to speak Ndebele. It is known as a beautiful language, melodic on the ear. It is a Bantu language that is spoken by Ndebele South Africans (who are also sometimes referred to as the ... ...
The language Afrikaans has its roots in seventeenth century Dutch but it has been influenced by many languages including: English, Malay, German, Portuguese, French and some African languages. Some of the first written work in Afrikaans was done using the Arabic alphabet in the workBayaan-ud-dj...
Radio service is handled by the South African Broadcasting Corporation, founded in 1936. Television programs have been broadcast since January 1976. E. F. KRYSHKIN Although the literature of the peoples of South Africa has developed to an extent in Bantu languages—Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, and ...
South African rand Languages spoken in South Africa Afrikaans, English, Southern Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu Map of South Africa Area in square kilometers 1,221,037 km2 Gross domestic product per capita $ 12,161South...