Languages of South Africa

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Dravidian language native to South India and Sri Lanka

Dravidian language native to South India

Indo-Aryan language that is spoken on the state of Gujarat

Nguni language of eastern South Africa and neighbouring countries

Nguni language of southern South Africa

language of the Romani people belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family

Bantu language of and South Africa

language of the Swazi people

Bantu language of Zimbabwe and Mozambique

Bantu language of the Tsonga people of southern Africa

language of the Venda people

Bantu language

language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, one of the official languages of South Africa

Khoe language spoken in southern Africa

Bantu language spoken in southern Africa

languages of a geographic region

Bantu languages spoken by the Nguni people

West Germanic language family

extinct language of South Africa and Lesotho

dialect and set of English dialects native to South Africans

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moribund Tuu (Khoisan) language once spoken in South Africa

language family of Botswana and South Africa

sign language in South Africa

Fanagalo, or Fanakalo, is a vernacular or pidgin based primarily on Zulu with input from English and a small amount of Afrikaans. It is used as a lingua franca, mainly in the gold, diamond, coal and copper mining industries in South Africa and to a lesser extent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Although it is used as a second language only, the number of speakers was estimated as "several hundred thousand" in 1975. By the time independence came–or in the case of South Africa, universal suffrage–English had become sufficiently widely spoken and understood

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organization for the promotion of the languages of South Africa

ǃOrakobab, or Khoemana, also known as Korana, ǃOra, or Griqua, is a moribund Khoe language of South Africa.

Angloromani or Anglo-Romani (literally "English Romani"; also known as Angloromany, Rummaness, or '''''') is a Para-Romani dialect spoken by the Romanichal, a subgroup of the Romani people in the United Kingdom and other parts of the English-speaking world. It is characterised by the presence of Romani vocabulary and syntax in the English used by Romanichal.

dialect continuum of the Khoe family of Namibia, Angola, Botswana, South Africa, and small parts of Zambia

Shona language/dialect

Khoisan language variety

extinct Tuu language of South Africa

An indaba (; ) is an important conference held by the izinDuna (principal men) of the Zulu and Xhosa peoples of South Africa. (Such meetings are also practised by the Swazi, who refer to them using the close cognate ''''''''''.) Indabas may include only the izinDuna of a particular community, or they may be held with representatives of other communities.

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IsiNgqumo, or IsiGqumo, (literally "decisions" in the language itself) is an argot used by homosexuals of South Africa and Zimbabwe who speak Bantu languages, as opposed to Gayle, a language used by the homosexuals of South Africa who speak Germanic languages. IsiNgqumo developed during the 1980s. Unlike Gayle, IsiNgqumo has not been thoroughly researched or documented, so figures on numbers of speakers are nonexistent.

variety of mixed languages mainly spoken in the townships of Gauteng province

Kaaps (, meaning 'of the Cape'), also known as Afrikaaps, is a dialect of Afrikaans that evolved in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Since the early 2020s there has been a significant increase in the number of works of literature published in Kaaps. Most works in Kaaps come from authors located in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town, South Africa, where it is most commonly spoken. Although Kaaps is considered a growing phenomenon, it is more specifically a colloquial dialect of Afrikaans. All other distinct colloquial variations of Afrikaans, including Kaaps, are organically connected t

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lingua franca of Pretoria and the Tshwane

dialect of Khoekhoe language