What language is Afrique?

What language is Afrique?

While Arabic is the most spoken language in Africa, there’s plenty more – other popular languages include Amharic, Berber, Portuguese, Oromo, Igbo, Yoruba, Zulu and Shona.

What is the 11 languages of South Africa?

South Africa’s Constitution recognises 11 official languages: Sepedi (also known as Sesotho sa Leboa), Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, isiXhosa and isiZulu. For centuries South Africa’s official languages were European – Dutch, English, Afrikaans.

What language do Lesotho speak?

Southern Sotho
English
Lesotho/Official languages

Sotho (Sesotho), a Bantu language, is spoken by the majority of the population, though both Sotho and English are official languages in the country. Zulu is spoken by a small but significant minority. Phuthi, a dialect of Swati, and Xhosa are also spoken in parts of Lesotho.

What language do Nigeria speak?

English
Nigeria/Official languages
Hausa was an official language of the northern states from 1951 to 1967. It is the most widely spoken language, although English is the official language of Nigeria. In addition to English, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Fula, and English Creole are widely spoken. Many of the languages exist in written form.

Is Venda a language?

Venda or Tshivenda is a Bantu language and an official language of South Africa. It is mainly spoken by the Venda people in the northern part of South Africa’s Limpopo province, as well as by some Lemba people in Zimbabwe.

Is Tsonga a language?

Tsonga (/ˈtsɒŋɡə, ˈtsɔː-/) or Xitsonga (Tsonga: Xitsonga) as an endonym, is a Bantu language spoken by the Tsonga people of southern Africa. It is mutually intelligible with Tswa and Ronga and the name “Tsonga” is often used as a cover term for all three, also sometimes referred to as Tswa-Ronga.

Is English spoken in Lesotho?

Lesotho, a country in Southern Africa, is home to several languages, including Phuthi, Sesotho, Xhosa, Zulu and English, — all, except for English, belong to the Niger–Congo language family.

Where is Zulu spoken?

South Africa
The Language, Culture and People IsiZulu is one of the 11 official languages spoken in South Africa. Approximately 10 million people in South Africa speak isiZulu as a first language and many more as a second language.

Who speaks in clicks?

There are two groups of languages in southern Africa that have clicks: the Khoisan languages and certain languages of the Niger-Congo family, most notably Zulu and Xhosa. The Khoisan languages have had clicks in them from time immemorial, and their speakers have always been in the southern part of Africa.

Quelle est la langue la plus parlée en Afrique du Sud?

La langue la plus parlée en Afrique du Sud est le Zulu (23%), suivi par la Xhosa (16%) et l’Afrikaans (14%). L’anglais est la quatrième langue maternelle la plus répandue dans le pays (9,6%).

Quand l’Afrique du Sud est devenue une république?

Lorsque l’Afrique du Sud est devenue une République en 1961, la relation officielle a changé de sorte que l’afrikaans a été considéré comme incluant le néerlandais. Ensuite, le néerlandais a été abandonné en 1984. Donc, entre 1984 et 1994, l’Afrique du Sud avait deux langues officielles : l’anglais et l’afrikaans.

Est-ce que l’afrikaans est la langue maternelle du néerlandais?

L’afrikaans, langue dérivée du néerlandais, est la langue la plus parlée dans la moitié occidentale du pays (Western et Northern Cape). Il est parlé comme langue maternelle par approximativement 61% des blancs et 76% des personnes de couleur (pluri-éthnique) dans le pays.