Country
Languages of South Africa
The Linguasphere Register records 12 entries for South Africa, spread across 5 of its ten sectors. Each row below links to the Register entry, where the sets, chains and individual languages underneath it can be opened.
12Register entries
5Sectors present
8Zones
1Language entries
0= AFRICA 4= EURASIA 5= INDO-EUROPEAN 7= SINO-INDIAN 9= TRANSAFRICAN
Register entries recorded in South Africa
| Code | Entry | Level | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
08= | KHOISANIC | Zone | Covers the "Central Khoisan" grouping (part of the "wider Khoisan" hypothesis). |
09= | KALAHARI | Zone | Covers the Kalahari reference area (within the "wider Khoisan" hypothesis), composed of the "North-Khoisan" set 09-A … |
49= | DRAVIDIC | Zone | Covers the "Dravidian" grouping. |
51= | ROMANIC | Zone | Covers the "Romance" or Italiano + Româneasca set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity. |
52-A | NORSK + FRYSK | Set | GERMANIC,. |
52-AC | FRYSK + DEUTSCH | Chain | CONTINENTAL-WEST-GERMANIC, "frisian" + "teutonic". for note on the term "teutonic" see [52] Deutsch + Nederlands below. … |
52-ACB | DEUTSCH + NEDERLANDS | Net | GERMAN + DUTCH, deutsch + "dutch", ’teutonic’. The modern spoken and recorded idioms of this net are classified below … |
52= | GERMANIC | Zone | Covers the "Germanic" or Norsk + Frysk set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity. |
59= | INDIC | Zone | Covers the "Indic", "Indo-Aryan" or Hindi + Domari set of languages, part of the "Indo-Iranian" grouping within the … |
79= | SINITIC | Zone | Covers the "Chinese" or Han-Yu set, part of the "Sino-Tibetan" ("Sino-Indian") continental affinity. |
99-AUT-a | chiZezuru + chiKaranga | Outer | Shona, zezuru + karanga, bantu-S10’s. |
99= | BANTUIC | Zone | Covers the "broad Bantu", "narrow Bantu + Bantoid" or Isizulu + Tiv set (the central-southern section of "old … |
Country placements come from the geographic data published with the Linguasphere Register. They mark where a speech community is recorded, not where a language is official. See sources and attribution.