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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 ...
Afrikaans ( / ˌæfrɪˈkɑːns / AF-rih-KAHNSS, / ˌɑːf -, - ˈkɑːnz / AHF-, -KAHNZ) [3] [4] is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It evolved from the Dutch vernacular [5] [6] of South Holland ( Hollandic dialect) [7] [8] spoken by the predominantly Dutch settlers and enslaved population of the Dutch Cape ...
Zulu ( / ˈzuːluː / 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. [1] Zulu is the most widely spoken home language in South Africa (24% of the population), and it ...
South African English ( SAfrE, SAfrEng, SAE, en-ZA) [a] is the set of English language dialects native to South Africans.
South African Sign Language ( SASL, Afrikaans: Suid-Afrikaanse Gebaretaal) is the primary sign language used by deaf people in South Africa. The South African government added a National Language Unit for South African Sign Language in 2001. [2] SASL is not the only manual language used in South Africa, [3] [4] but it is the language that is ...
Major Horn of Africa languages are Somali, Amharic and Oromo. Lingala is important in Central Africa. Important South African languages are Sotho, Tswana, Pedi, Venda, Tsonga, Swazi, Southern Ndebele, Zulu, Xhosa and Afrikaans. [34] French, English, and Portuguese are important languages in Africa due to colonialism.
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] Xhosa is spoken as a first language by approximately 10 million people and as a second language by another ...
The Pan South African Language Board ( Afrikaans: Pan-Suid-Afrikaanse Taalraad, abbreviated PanSALB) is an organisation in South Africa established to promote multilingualism, to develop the 12 official languages, and to protect language rights in South Africa. The Board was established in Act 59 of 1995 by the Parliament of South Africa.