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The most common language spoken as a first language by South Africans is Zulu (23 percent), followed by Xhosa (16 percent), and Afrikaans (14 percent). English is the fourth most common first language in the country (9.6%), but is understood in most urban areas and is the dominant language in government and the media.
22 Οκτ 2023 · Learn about the history, diversity and multilingualism of South Africa's 11 official languages, including African, European and sign languages. See maps, examples and code-switching in action.
1 ημέρα πριν · White South Africans form two main language groups. More than half of them are Afrikaans speakers, the descendants of mostly Dutch, French, and German settlers. The remainder consists largely of English speakers who are descended mainly from British colonists, though there are a sizable minority of Portuguese and smaller groups of Italians and ...
20 Φεβ 2019 · Here’s a deeper dive into the official languages in South Africa. Afrikaans In South Africa. There’s no doubt that Afrikaans is a South African invention, a language born and bred in — and deeply interwoven in the history of — that unique nation positioned at the southern tip of Africa.
25 Απρ 2017 · Learn about the 11 official languages of South Africa, their speakers, distribution, and history. Find out which languages are popular, dying, or preferred by youth in urban areas.
Rossouw speaking Afrikaans. Afrikaans ( / ˌæfrɪˈkɑːns / AF-rih-KAHNSS, / ˌɑːf -, - ˈkɑːnz / AHF-, -KAHNZ) [3] [4] is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
South Africa has eleven official languages. They are Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sesotho, Swazi, Setswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa and Zulu. Most South Africans (over 99%) speak one of these languages as a first language. Most South Africans can speak more than one language.
