Bantu languages (section Lingua franca)
(Congo, DRC), followed by Zulu with 13.56 million speakers (South Africa), Xhosa at a distant third place with 8.2 million speakers (South Africa and Zimbabwe)...
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Languages of Zimbabwe (section Xhosa)
Ndebele, Shangani, Shona, sign language, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa. The country's main languages are Shona, spoken by over 70% 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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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South Africa (category Articles containing Xhosa-language text)
as a first language by nearly a quarter of the country's population, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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and Lusoga (partially) Nkore and Kiga Zulu, Northern Ndebele (partially), Xhosa (partially), and Swazi (partially) Iban and Malay, especially with Sarawakian...
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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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Roux, Justus (November 2005). "Phonetic analysis of Afrikaans, English, Xhosa and Zulu using South African speech databases". 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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List of ISO 639-2 codes (category Articles containing Xhosa-language text)
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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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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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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List of Wikipedias (redirect from Xhosa Wikipedia)
Lezgian Cyrl lez 4,405 19 27 March 2012 Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia Vicipedia en lingua franca nova Lingua Franca Nova Latn lfn 4,391 26 Unknown date...
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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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