I know that English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Tsonga, Tswana, etc are spoken in South Africa. But in the cities what is the most spoken language. Cape Town? Johannesburg? What about the Shantytowns and Soweto?
2007-03-10 14:34:46 · 10 answers · asked by ihaveissues 1 in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ South Africa
Almost everybody understands english.
The main languages are english afrikaans and zulu
2007-03-10 19:38:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Language Spoken In Johannesburg
2016-12-12 09:32:11 · answer #2 · answered by lucy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cape Town : Afrikaans, English, Xhosa.
Durban : Zulu, English, Afrikaans.
Bloemfontein : Sotho, Afrikaans, English.
Johannesburg : English , and all the other black languages and many other foreign ones from Africa and the rest of the world it's the biggest melting pot of cultures after NY.
2007-03-10 18:35:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The 3 biggest languages in South Africa are Zulu, Xhosa and Afrikaans, in that order.
http://www.cyberserv.co.za/users/~jako/lang/stats.htm
English, however, is used as a bridge language everywhere
2007-03-11 05:41:20 · answer #4 · answered by Vango 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are a number of official languages, but English and Afrikaans have the most speakers. Afrikaans is derived from Dutch. It's still very similar but not always completely mutually intelligible. That's what you'd be thinking of.
2016-03-28 23:43:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cape Town and Johannesburg......it's English.
Shantytowns and Soweto speak ALL the languages in SA because it is a totally mixed society. So if you speak English, you are bound to be understood.
2007-03-10 16:55:59 · answer #6 · answered by Commodore 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English, the shanty towns speak their traditional languages and also afrikaans, we are a country that have 11 official languages, so choose which ever language you want to speak, but english and afrikaans are the most spoken
2007-03-11 22:54:29 · answer #7 · answered by monica4rd 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
French is spoken there a little.
There is also the ones you said...
Johannesburg mostly speaks english and afrikaans. [i'm from there]
so does the cape...
as for the other two places..i have no idea
2007-03-10 15:28:34 · answer #8 · answered by a7x_lover14 1 · 0⤊ 6⤋
http://countrystudies.us/south-africa/45.htm
you may find the above interesting to read.
2007-03-11 22:26:33 · answer #9 · answered by Jonathan M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as above, a multitude of languages are spokien or understood.
however our politicians speak a dialect of bullsh!t.
2007-03-11 00:51:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋