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South Africa has 11 official languages and a multilingual population fluent in at least two. IsiZulu and isiXhosa are the largest languages, while English is spoken at home by only one in 10 people – most of them not white.
What languages are spoken in South Africa’s nine provinces? Mary Alexander 11 June 2021. The home language of most people in KwaZulu-Natal is, unsurprisingly, isiZulu. In the Eastern Cape it’s isiXhosa. Around half the people of the Western Cape and Northern Cape speak Afrikaans.
Nearly 30% of black South Africans speak isiZulu as a first language, and 20% isiXhosa. Some 76% of coloured people speak Afrikaans, and 86% of Indian South Africans speak English. Sixty percent of white people speak Afrikaans, and 30% speak English.
According to the 2011 census, English is the home language of 9.6% of South Africans – a third of them not white. English is the language of public life: government, business and the media. It’s estimated that half of South Africa’s people have a speaking knowledge of the language.
South Africa has nine provinces, each with its own history, landscape, population, languages, economy, cities and government. They are the Eastern Cape, the Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, the Northern Cape, North West and the Western Cape.
Each of South Africa’s 11 languages has a fascinating vocabulary, with some words and phrases influenced by other languages, and many unique to that language. Learn a little South African with these animations. Most tourist guides to South Africa give you only basic phrases – hello, goodbye, how much?
Bar graph and pie chart showing South Africa’s languages, according to the 2011 census. South Africa’s 11 official languages are Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho sa Leboa, Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, and Xitsonga.
Each of South Africa’s 11 languages has a fascinating vocabulary, with some words and phrases influenced by other languages, and many unique to that language. Learn a little South African with these animations.
No education – in three languages? By 1976 young black people’s frustration with their education, and the bleak future it offered, was ready to explode. The fuse was lit when the government proposed to introduce Afrikaans as the language of teaching. Black South Africans spoke their own languages. These had already been ignored in their ...
Before South Africa became a democracy in 1994 and established its new constitution in 1996, the country was divided into four provinces set aside for white people, and 10 “homelands”, small unsustainable states designated for black people.