Venda language
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| Venda Tshivenda |
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| Spoken in: | South Africa and Zimbabwe | |
| Region: | Limpopo Province | |
| Total speakers: | 750,000 | |
| Language family: | Niger-Congo Atlantic-Congo Volta-Congo Benue-Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Narrow Bantu Venda |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language of: | South Africa | |
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | ve | |
| ISO 639-2: | ven | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | ven | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Venda, also known as Tshivenda, or Luvenda, is a Bantu language. The majority of Venda speakers live in South Africa (where Venda is an official language), but there are also speakers in Zimbabwe. Before South Africa became a democratic country, the bantustan of Venda was set up to cover the Venda speakers of South Africa.
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[edit] Classification
Venda belongs to the Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo languages.
[edit] Geographic distribution
Venda is spoken by about 666,000 people in the northern part of South Africa's Limpopo Province, as well as 84,000 people in Zimbabwe.
[edit] Official status
Venda is an official language in South Africa.
[edit] External links
Venda language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Ethnologue entry for Venda
- Tshivenda - South African Languages
- Project translating Free Software into Venda
- Batho Portal Welcome page in Venda
- PanAfrican L10n page on Venda
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