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    Ndebele, Shangani, Shona, sign language, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa. The country's main languages are Shona, spoken by only 42% of the population...
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    South African Sign Language, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu and English, which is the primary language used in parliamentary and...
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    2019[update]), the Xhosa people of Southern Africa (9.6 million as of 2011), and the Pedi of South Africa (7 million as of 2018). Abantu is the Xhosa and Zulu word...
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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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    million speakers (Congo, DRC), Zulu with 12 million speakers (South Africa), Xhosa with 8.2 million speakers (South Africa and Zimbabwe), and Shona with less...
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    although it was modelled on a Xhosa grammar. The first grammar of Tswana which regarded it as a separate language from Xhosa (but still not as a separate...
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    through central Africa to the Bantu speakers of South Africa (the Venda and Xhosa) and corresponds to the distribution of the Niger-Kordofanian language family...
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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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  • nasals: /nɮ̤/ is pronounced [nd͡ɮ̤], with an epenthetic stop, in at least Xhosa and Zulu. Flemming, Edward; Ladefoged, Peter; Thomason, Sarah (August 1994)...
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  • spoken in Chinatowns in Canada and the United States. It was formerly the lingua franca of the overseas Chinese residing in the United States. The earliest...
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    South Africa (category Articles containing Xhosa-language text)
    the 2011 census, the two most spoken first languages are Zulu (22.7%) and Xhosa (16.0%). The next two are of European origin: Afrikaans (13.5%) developed...
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    the Northern Ndebele language (isiNdebele) is closely related to Zulu. Xhosa, the predominant language in the Eastern Cape, is often considered mutually...
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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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    a language cluster comprising 30 or so modern varieties. Arabic is the lingua franca of people who live in countries of the Arab world as well as of Arabs...
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  • languages although at the same time recognising the English language as its lingua franca. In spatial terms, indigenous (endoglossic) languages are mostly...
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  • input from English and a small amount of Afrikaans input. It is used as a lingua franca, mainly in the gold, diamond, coal and copper mining industries in...
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    affected). Kinyarwanda and Kirundi Zulu, Northern Ndebele (partially), Xhosa (partially), and Swazi (partially) Luganda and Lusoga (partially) Nkore...
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  • English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu (co-official), sign language, Khoi, Nama and San (the languages, which...
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  • voiced 'dl' or 'dhl' in the several languages of Southern Africa (such as Xhosa and Zulu), and in Mongolian. ʪ or [ɬ͜s] and [θ͜ɬ] voiceless lateral-median...
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  • 1981, the two new services were launched: TV2, broadcasting in Zulu and Xhosa; and TV3, broadcasting in Sotho and Tswana, both targeted at a Black urban...
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    in Brussels-Capital Region)  Namibia Afrikaans 2,113,000 220,000 (10,4%) lingua franca Recognized national language  Netherlands Dutch 17,116,000 16,431...
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    Shona, Sesotho, Xhosa, Zulu, Akan, and Mooré. The most widely spoken by the total number of speakers is Swahili, which is used as a lingua franca in parts...
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    Philippa; Roux, Justus (2005), "Phonetic analysis of Afrikaans, English, Xhosa and Zulu using South African speech databases" (PDF), Southern African Linguistics...
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    Province are believed to date from around 1050. The southernmost group was the Xhosa people, whose language incorporates certain linguistic traits from the earlier...
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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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  • Xârâcùù Spoken in: the French special collectivity of New Caledonia Xhosa – isiXhosa Official language in: the Republic of South Africa and the Republic...
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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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  • 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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  • isiNdebele, Sepedi, Sesotho, siSwati, Setswana, Xitsonga, Thsivenda, isiXhosa and isiZulu. The South African constitution further explicitly supports...
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  • Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. p. 3. ISBN 978-3-11-061334-6. Curtis, Ervino (1992). "La lingua, la storia, la tradizione degli istroromeni" (in Italian). Trieste: Associazione...
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