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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 ...
IsiXhosa. Country. KwaXhosa. The Xhosa people, or Xhosa -speaking people (/ ˈkɔːsə / KAW-sə, / ˈkoʊsə / KOH-sə; [2][3][4] Xhosa pronunciation: [kǁʰɔ́ːsa] ⓘ) are a Bantu ethnic group native to South Africa. They are the second largest ethnic group in South Africa and are native speakers of the isiXhosa language.
Zulu is the most widely spoken language in South Africa, where it is an official language. More than half of the South African population can understand it, with over 13.78 million first-language and over 15 million second-language speakers. [11] Many Zulu people also speak Xitsonga, Sesotho and others from among South Africa's 12 official ...
Khoisan (/ ˈkɔɪsɑːn / KOY-sahn) or Khoe-Sān (pronounced [kxʰoesaːn]) is a catch-all term for the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa who traditionally speak non- Bantu languages, combining the Khoekhoen and the Sān peoples. Khoisan populations traditionally speak click languages and are considered to be the historical communities ...
Xhosa (/ ˈkɔːsə / KAW-sə, / ˈkoʊsə / KOH-sə; [ 5 ][ 6 ][ 7 ]Xhosa pronunciation: [kǁʰóːsa]), formerly spelled Xosa and also known by its local name isiXhosa, is a Nguni language, indigenous to Southern Africa and one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe. [ 8 ]
Pedi. The Pedi / pɛdi / or Bapedi / bæˈpɛdi / - also known as the Northern Sotho, [2] Basotho ba Lebowa, bakgatla ba dithebe, [3] Transvaal Sotho, [4] Marota, or Dikgoshi [5] - are a Sotho-Tswana ethnic group native to South Africa, Botswana, and Lesotho that speak Pedi or Sepedi,[6] which is one of the 12 official languages in South Africa ...
AmaNdebele are an ethnic group native to South Africa who speak isiNdebele. The group is separate from the Northern Ndebele who broke away from the Zulu during Tshaka 's time. They mainly inhabit the provinces of Mpumalanga, Gauteng and Limpopo, all of which are in the northeast of the country. In academia this ethnic group is referred to as ...
Zulu (/ ˈ z uː l uː / ZOO-loo), or IsiZulu as an endonym, is a Southern Bantu language of the Nguni branch spoken and indigenous to Southern Africa.It is the language of the Zulu people, with about 13.56 million native speakers, who primarily inhabit the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. [4]