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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.
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.
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 ...
After a short period (1984-1994) where Afrikaans and English were the two co-official languages of South Africa, Afrikaans has been one of eleven official languages since 1994. [17] Since 2012 a new language policy has been implemented where working languages of all government institutions were established.
Language World Africa Americas Asia Europe Oceania Countries English: 58 23 14 4 3 14 United Kingdom, United States, [k] Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, South Africa, Nigeria (See the full list) [78] French: 27 19 2 – 5 1 France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Madagascar, Monaco, Haiti, Vanuatu (See the full list) Arabic: 23 ...
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Afrikaans; Anarâškielâ; العربية; Aragonés; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; বাংলা; Беларуская; Беларуская ...
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 miles) of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean; [14] [15] [16] to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini ...