Language · Atlantic-Congo
South Ndebele
isiNdebele – its own name
Official or co-official in 1 country. Listed in 1 country.
Endangerment: not endangered according to Glottolog (AES, CC BY 4.0)
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 967 thousand
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Latin
Place in the family tree
- Atlantic-Congo
- Volta-Congo
- Benue-Congo
- Bantoid
- Southern Bantoid
- Bantu
- East Bantu
- Southern Bantu
- Nuclear Southern Bantu
- Dimsuffix Southern Bantu
- Nguni-Tsonga-Copi
- Nguni (S.40)
- Nuclear Nguni
- Southern Ndebele-Lowland
- Zulu
- South Ndebele
Nodes of the Glottolog tree (Glottolog, CC BY 4.0).
Where it is spoken
- Co-official 1
Co-official
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South Africa
1.6%
967 thousand
Legal basis: Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Act, 2023 (Act No. 3 of 2023) – Government Gazette No. 49041, 27 July 2023, s. 1