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SA Sign Language. 0.5%. 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 ...
Johannesburg is the economic and financial hub of South Africa, producing 16% of South Africa's gross domestic product, and accounts for 40% of Gauteng's economic activity. [citation needed] In a 2008 survey conducted by Mastercard, Johannesburg ranked 47 out of 50 top cities in the world as a worldwide centre of commerce (the only city in Africa).
Afrikaners ( Afrikaans: [afriˈkɑːnərs]) are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. [ 8] Until 1994, they dominated South Africa 's politics as well as the country's commercial agricultural sector. [ 9]
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken widely in South Africa and Namibia, and to a lesser extent in Botswana and Zimbabwe. It evolved from the Dutch vernacular [ 17 ] [ 18 ] of South Holland ( Hollandic dialect ) [ 19 ] [ 20 ] spoken by the mainly Dutch colonists of what is now South Africa, where it gradually began to develop ...
English: Map showing the dominant home languages in the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa, according to Census 2001 at the "Subplace" 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 ...
The Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname are member states of the Dutch Language Union; South Africa refuses to become a member state although Afrikaans is integrated in the task statement of the Dutch Language Union. [citation needed] Country. Population. 2011 [ 11] Speakers.
Summary. 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%.
Five languages have more than 50 million native speakers in Europe: Russian, English, French, Italian, and German. Russian is the most-spoken native language in Europe, [ 4] and English has the largest number of speakers in total, including some 200 million speakers of English as a second or foreign language. (See English language in Europe .)