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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.
English: Map showing the dominant home languages in South Africa, according to Census 2011, using data aggregated to regular 50km 2 hexagonal cells. In this context, a language is dominant if it more than 50% of the population in a ward speak it at home, or more than 33% speak it and no other language is spoken by more than 25%.
Some also have fluency in the German, Portuguese and Spanish languages. Central African Republic: French & Sango (both official) [2] and 50 other African languages. Chad: French and Arabic (both official) [3] + more than 100 African languages.
English: Map showing the dominant home languages in South Africa, based on ward-level data from the 2011 census. In this context, a language is dominant if it more than 50% of the population in a ward speak it at home, or more than 33% speak it and no other language is spoken by more than 25%.
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [ 1 ] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.
English: Map showing the dominant home languages in South Africa, according to Census 2001 at the "Main Place" level. In this context, a language is dominant if it more than 50% of the population in an area speak it at home, or more than 33% speak it and no other language is spoken by more than 25%.
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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. 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 ...