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At least thirty-five languages are spoken in South Africa, twelve of which are official languages of South Africa: Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, South African Sign Language, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu, and English, which is the primary language used in parliamentary and state discourse, though all official languages are equal in legal status.
South Africa has 11 national languages: Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Pedi, Tswana, Venda, SiSwati, Tsonga, and Ndebele. Any definitive literary history of South Africa should, it could be argued, discuss literature produced in all 11 languages. But the only literature ever to adopt characteristics that can be said to be "national" is ...
New Africa Books is a South African book publisher based in Cape Town. The company incorporates David Philip Publishers, one of South Africa's oldest and most influential independent publishers. New Africa Books currently publishes literary and educational books for adults, children and young adults. It is one of the very few publishing ...
List of South African slang words
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There are eleven official names of South Africa, [1] one in each of its 12 official languages. The number is surpassed only by India. These languages include English, Afrikaans, the Nguni languages (Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele, and Swazi), the Sotho-Tswana languages (Tswana, Sotho, and Pedi), Venda, and Tsonga. There are smaller but still significant ...
Southern Transvaal Ndebele is one of the eleven official languages in the Republic of South Africa. The language is a Nguni or Zunda classification (UN) spoken mostly in the Mpumalanga Province, Gauteng, Limpopo and the Northwest. The expression isikhethu can be loosely translated to mean 'the Southern Ndebele way of doing or saying'.
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