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Eswatini, [b] formally the Kingdom of Eswatini, also known by its former official names Swaziland [c] and the Kingdom of Swaziland, [12] [13] is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its north, west, south, and southeast.
Tsonga, a Tswa–Ronga language and also an official language of South Africa, is spoken by 19,000 Swazis (as of 1993). Chewa , an official language of Malawi , and Sotho (Sesotho or Southern Sotho), spoken mainly in Lesotho and the South African province of Free State , are immigrant languages with 5,700 and 4,700 speakers respectively.
Afrikaans; العربية ... Pages in category "Languages of Eswatini" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
The Swati people and the Kingdom of Eswatini today are named after Mswati II, who became king in 1839 after the death of his father King Sobhuza. Eswatini was a region first occupied by the San people and the current Swazis migrated from north East Africa through to Mozambique and eventually settled in Eswatini in the 15th century. Their royal ...
Eswatini: ≈13,000 (2006) [a] ... Afrikaans is offered at many universities outside of South Africa including in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, ...
The name of the language comes directly from the Dutch word Afrikaansch (now spelled Afrikaans) [n 4] meaning 'African'. [12] It was previously referred to as 'Cape Dutch' (Kaap-Hollands or Kaap-Nederlands), a term also used to refer to the early Cape settlers collectively, or the derogatory 'kitchen Dutch' (kombuistaal) from its use by slaves of colonial settlers "in the kitchen".
Swazi or siSwati is a Bantu language of the Nguni group spoken in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) and South Africa by the Swati people.The number of speakers is estimated to be in the region of 4.7 million including first and second language speakers. [1]
The Nguni languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken in southern Africa (mainly South Africa, Zimbabwe and Eswatini) by the Nguni people. Nguni languages include Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele, and Swati. The appellation "Nguni" derives from the Nguni cattle type. Ngoni (see below) is an older, or a shifted, variant.