Abstract

The geographical-referential classification ‘southern Bantu languages’ includes the Bantu languages of the Nguni group (including Zulu, Xhosa, Swati, Ndebele), the Sotho-Tswana group (including Northern Sotho, Sesotho, Tswana), the Tswa-Ronga group, the Imhambane group, as well as Shona and Venda. Southern Bantu languages are spoken in South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and southern Mozambique, and they are official languages in several countries, including South Africa, where all nine official Bantu languages are southern Bantu languages.

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