Talk:Languages of South Africa
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[edit] Nguni?
The nine official Bantu languages of South Africa aren't all Nguni. Is Nguni not only comprised of Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele and Swati? Sesotho and Northern Sotho (and maybe even Tswana, but I'm not sure) are Sotho languages, not Nguni languages. Joziboy 23 March 2006, 20:10 (UTC)
- According to Ethnologue there are four Nguni languages. :) // Big Adamsky • BA's talk page 20:35, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Call for merger
This page should be merged as fast as possible with Other languages of South Africa, which has a less official "feel" to it, but whose coverage of languages is wider than Languages of South Africa. There is no rationale to keep them separate. Anyone? — Sotho of the South 14:27, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
- A quick check revealed nothing substantially different, so I have redirected Other languages of South Africa to this article and will delete the obsolete redirect in a few days. Until then, the original content can still be found in this revision. In the meantime, the scope of the current article will need to widened to include all languages spoken in South Africa, along the lines of Languages of Uganda and Languages of Mali. — mark ✎ 14:45, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, Mark. Looks great. I made minor additions to the Languages_of_SA article, based on the one being scrapped. — Sotho of the South 11:00, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
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- See that page's discussion page for rationale. --Uxejn 21:59, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Constitution
Where does:
- The Constitution also recognises a further eight non-official "national languages":
- Fanagalo, Lobedu (Khilobedu), Northern Ndebele (Sindebele), Phuthi (Siphuthi), South African Sign Language, Khoe, Nama, San (Khoisan/Khoesan) languages
come from? The 1st four are not in the version of the constititution I use. See Chapter 1, section 6. --Uxejn 21:52, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
