Language Map Of South Africa

The largest is the Nguni including various peoples who speak Swati primarily the Swazi peoples as well as those who speak languages that take their names from the peoples by whom they are primarily spokenthe Ndebele Xhosa and Zulu see also Xhosa. South Africa has 11 official languages. See this page for maps of the country before and after 1994. Map showing the dominant home languages in South Africa according to Census 2011 using data aggregated to regular 50km 2 hexagonal cells.

Languages Of South Africa Wikipedia

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Language Map Of South Africa. IsiZulu is South Africas biggest language spoken by almost a quarter 23 of the population. Statistics South Africas Census 2011 is the source. All 171 of our expanded country PDFs30000 when bought separately.

South Africa has 11 official languages. 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. Areas of little or no population.

South Africas remotenessit lies thousands of miles distant from major African cities such as Lagos and Cairo and more than 6000 miles 10000 km away from most of Europe North America and eastern Asia where its major trading partners are locatedhelped reinforce the official system of apartheid for a large part of the 20th century. ǀxarra ǁke meaning diverse peoples unite is in the extinct ǀXam language. Map showing the dominant home languages in South Africa based on ward-level data from the 2011 census.

See where every language in South Africa is spoken plus. LANGUAGE MAPS The language distribution map below shows the dominant languages per municipality in South Africa as gathered with the national census in 2001. Afrikaans English Ndebele Northern Sotho Sotho Swazi Tswana Tsonga Venda Xhosa and Zulu.

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