Siswati

Siswati
Spoken in	South Africa and Swaziland
speaker	2 million
Linguistic classification	Niger Congo Languages Benue Congo languages Bantoid languages Bantu languages Nguni languages Siswati
Official status
Official language in	South Africa and Swaziland
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	ss
ISO 639 -2	ssw
ISO 639-3	ssw

Share of Siswati speakers in South Africa (2011)

Density of Siswati speakers in South Africa (2011)

Siswati (actually siSwati , also Swati, Swazi ) is a Bantu language widespread in the Republic of South Africa and Swaziland .

In South Africa, 2.06 percent of the population aged 15 and over use Siswati as their mother tongue (as of 2015).

It belongs to the subgroup of the Nguni languages , which also includes isiZulu , isiXhosa, and South Ndebele and a few other languages. These languages ​​are so closely related that mutual understanding between the groups of speakers is largely problem-free. "The differentiation of the Nguni languages ​​into various independent languages ​​has less linguistic and more political causes."

See also

• Swazi

Individual evidence

1. ^ Institute of Race Relations : South Africa Survey 2017 . Johannesburg 2017, p. 74
2. ^ M. Reh: Nguni languages . In: H. Glück (Hrsg.): Metzler Lexikon Sprache . Bamberg 1993, p. 418.

Web links

Commons : Siswati  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikipedia on Siswati