TshiVenda | |
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Tshivenḓa | |
Native to | |
Region | Limpopo |
Ethnicity | Venda |
Native speakers | 1.3 million (2011 census)[1] 1.7 million L2 speakers in South Africa (2002)[2] |
Dialects |
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Latin (Venda alphabet) Venda Braille Ditema tsa Dinoko | |
Signed Venda | |
Official status | |
Official language in | ![]() ![]() |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | ve |
ISO 639-2 | ven |
ISO 639-3 | ven |
Glottolog | vend1245 |
S.20 (S.21) [3] | |
Linguasphere | 99-AUT-b incl. varieties 99-AUT-baa to 99-AUT-bad |
![]() Geographical distribution of Tshivenda in South Africa: proportion of the population that speaks Tshivenda at home.
0–20%
20–40%
40–60%
60–80%
80–100%
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![]() Geographical distribution of Tshivenda in South Africa: density of Tshivenda home-language speakers.
<1 /km²
1–3 /km²
3–10 /km²
10–30 /km²
30–100 /km²
100–300 /km²
300–1000 /km²
1000–3000 /km²
>3000 /km²
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Venda | |
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Person | Muvenda |
People | Vhavenda |
Language | Tshivenda |
Venḓa or Tshivenḓa is a Bantu language and an official language of South Africa and Zimbabwe. It is mainly spoken by the Venda people (or Vhavenḓa) in the northern part of South Africa's Limpopo province, as well as by some Lemba people in South Africa. The Tshivenda language is related to the Kalanga language which is spoken in Southern Africa. During the apartheid era of South Africa, the Bantustan of Venda was set up to cover the Venda speakers of South Africa.
According to the 2011 census, Venda speakers are concentrated in the following areas: Makhado Local Municipality, with 350,000 people; Thulamela Local Municipality, with 370,000 people; Musina Local Municipality, with 35,000 people; and Mutale Local Municipality, with 89,000 people. The total number of speakers in Vhembe district currently stands at 844,000. In Gauteng province, there are 275,000 Venda speakers. Fewer than 10,000 are spread across the rest of the country—for a total number of Venda speakers in South Africa at 1.2 million people or just 2.2% of South Africa's population, making Venda speakers the second smallest minority language in South Africa, after the Ndebele language, which number 1.1 million speakers. The population statistics of the Venda people in Zimbabwe are not clear but may currently stand at a million. The people are concentrated in the South of the country but also spread to other towns and cities. There is also a significant number of them in neighbouring South Africa where they are migrant workers.
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