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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.
32% of Johannesburg residents speak Nguni languages at home, 24% speak Sotho languages, 18% speak English, 7% speak Afrikaans and 6% speak Tshivenda. Gender Population
20 lut 2019 · Zulu is the most spoken native language in South Africa, followed by Xhosa, the language that was the native tongue of freedom fighter, anti-apartheid leader and later South African president Nelson Mandela.
24 gru 2023 · The 11 official languages of South Africa are Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, and Xitsonga. These languages were recognized as official languages in the 1996 Constitution, which was adopted after the end of apartheid.
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 ...
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. [1] . Most South Africans can speak more than one language.
We also see that many of Johannesburg’s more affluent wards (in the northern suburbs) and wards south east of Pretoria (around Centurion) do tend to be more homogenous with respect to the most frequently spoken language by households - and as we shall see below the dominant language here is English.
