ABSTRACT
South Africa has 11 national languages. These are: Afrikaans (6 200 000 speakers); English (3 500 000 speakers); Ndebele (588 000 speakers); Northern Sotho (3 840 000 speakers); Southern Sotho (2 704 000 speakers); Swati (1 019 000 speakers); Tsonga (1 646 000 speakers); Tswana (2 822 000 speakers); Venda (666 000 speakers); Xhosa (6 858 000 speakers) and Zulu (8 778 000 speakers).
