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    in South Africa and Namibia (Afrikaans, English, German) and are used as lingua francas in Liberia and the former colonies of the United Kingdom (English)...
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    population, and Ndebele, spoken by roughly 39%. English is the country's lingua franca, used in government and business and as the main medium of instruction...
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    South Africa: Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, South African Sign Language, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu and English, which is the primary...
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    Mozambique (category Articles containing Tsonga-language text)
    generally as a lingua franca between younger Mozambicans with access to formal education. The most important local languages include Tsonga, Makhuwa, Sena...
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    patrons of the Kafue Twa. They differ culturally and linguistically from the Tsonga people of South Africa and southern Mozambique. The BaTonga people of Zimbabwe...
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  • sobre a cooficialização da língua do "talian", à língua portuguesa, no município de Nova Roma do Sul" O Talian agora é a língua co-oficial de Nova Roma do...
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    taught as a mandatory subject in many schools in East Africa, and is a lingua franca of the East African Community. Other major Bantu languages include...
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    Dagestan (category Articles containing Tsonga-language text)
    or Turkic, languages; however, Russian is the primary language and the lingua franca in the republic. The word Dagestan is of Turkish and Persian origin...
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    Bantu origin languages which are: Swahili, Makhuwa, Sena, Ndau, Tswa-Ronga (Tsonga), Lomwe, Ekoti, Nahara, Makonde, Chopi, Chuwabu, Ronga, Kimwani, Nhungwe...
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  • similar to that of Tsonga as provided by Methodist missionaries and Portuguese settlers. Ronga is grammatically so close to Tsonga in many ways that census...
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  • (affectionately called Sepitori/S'pitori by its speakers), is the urban lingua franca of Pretoria and the Tshwane metropolitan area in South Africa. It...
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    in Swati and Bhaca; banhu in kisukuma; banu in Lala; vanhu in Shona and Tsonga; batho in Sesotho, Tswana and Sepedi; antu in Meru; andu in Embu; vandu...
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    up over 11% of the District Municipality's population. Afrikaans is the lingua franca in the Northern Cape because the majority of the province's population...
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    of this era are the numerous Portuguese words that have entered Shona, Tsonga and Makonde. Today, mixed race communities exist across the region, notably...
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    South Africa (category Articles containing Tsonga-language text)
    languages: Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, English, Pedi, Tswana, Southern Sotho, Tsonga, Swazi, Venda, and Southern Ndebele (in order of first language speakers)...
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    business, and the press. About 76,000 people in the country speak Zulu. Tsonga, which is spoken by many people throughout the region is spoken by about...
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  • Individual Living Kernowek cos cos co Corsican Individual Living Corsu; Lingua corsa cpe cpe Creoles and pidgins, English based Collective cpf cpf Creoles...
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    Emilian–Romagnol Latn eml 26 Unknown date Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia Vicipedia en lingua franca nova Lingua Franca Nova Latn lfn 26 Unknown date Meadow...
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  • including Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic. In addition, English serves as the lingua franca of Israel. Though many Jewish languages are not genetically related...
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    late 1960s. Pretoria Sotho (called Sepitori by its speakers) is the urban lingua franca of Pretoria and the Tshwane metropolitan area in South Africa. It...
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    many Nguni languages has increased the likelihood of Zulu becoming the lingua franca of the eastern half of the country. In the 1994 film The Lion King...
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  • Africa: Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu (co-official), sign language, Khoi, Nama and San (the...
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  • languages: Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Pedi, Tswana, Venda, SiSwati, Tsonga, and Ndebele. Any definitive literary history of South Africa should, it...
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  • seeds came through unscathed with victories for Marion Bartoli, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Paul-Henri Mathieu and Gaël Monfils. The United States' hopes of having...
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    Zulu-based: S40A Fanagalo, S40B Iscamtho§, S40C †Shalambombo§ Tsonga-based: S50A Pretoria-Tsonga§ §: These languages did not have separate articles at the...
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    proficiency, in addition to their native language, with English acting as a lingua franca in commerce, education, and government. South Africa has eleven official...
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  • (qualified) Mateus Alves (qualified) Wojciech Marek (qualified) Alejo Lorenzo Lingua Lavallén (qualifying competition) Giulio Zeppieri (qualified) Admir Kalender...
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  • Sino-Platonic Papers (19): 5. Chew, Phillis Ghim-Lian (2013). Emergent Lingua Francas and World Orders: The Politics and Place of English as a World Language...
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  • Southern Sotho) speakers have a similar accent, with slight variations. Tsonga and Venda speakers have very similar accents with far less intonation than...
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    languages sub-family. Dari has always been the prestige language and a lingua franca for inter-ethnic communication. It is the native tongue of the Tajiks...
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