Category
page 1Zulu language
Zulu
Nguni language of eastern South Africa and neighbouring countries
Northern Ndebele
language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, one of the official languages of Zimbabwe
Fanagalo
Fanagalo, or Fanakalo, is a vernacular or pidgin based primarily on Zulu with input from English and a small amount of Afrikaans. It is used as a lingua franca, mainly in the gold, diamond, coal and copper mining industries in South Africa and to a lesser extent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Although it is used as a second language only, the number of speakers was estimated as "several hundred thousand" in 1975. By the time independence came–or in the case of South Africa, universal suffrage–English had become sufficiently widely spoken and understood
Ditema tsa Dinoko
writing system for some Southern Bantu languages