Tswana language
Bantu language of Botswana and South Africa
The Tswana language (or Setswana) is a language spoken in southern Africa. About five million people speak it. It is a Bantu language. It belongs to the Niger–Congo language family within the Sotho languages. It is closely related to the Northern- and Southern Sotho languages.
| Setswana | |
|---|---|
| Setswana | |
| Native to | Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia |
| Ethnicity | Batswana |
Native speakers | (4.1 million in South Africa (2011) 1.1 million in Botswana cited 1993)[1] unknown number in Zimbabwe 7.7 million L2 speakers in South Africa (2002)[2] |
| Latin (Tswana alphabet) Tswana Braille | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Botswana South Africa Zimbabwe |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | tn |
| ISO 639-2 | tsn |
| ISO 639-3 | tsn |
| Glottolog | tswa1253 |
| Linguasphere | 99- |
Tswana is an official language of Botswana. Most Tswana speakers are in South Africa, where four million people speak the language.
References
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Tswana edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- ↑ Setswana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Webb, Vic. 2002. "Language in South Africa: the role of language in national transformation, reconstruction and development." Impact: Studies in language and society, 14:78