I have a CD I downloaded from iTunes of the Soweto Gospel Choir, and I want to know what language they are singing in?
2007-05-17 16:45:22 · 6 answers · asked by nanlwart 5 in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ South Africa
The official languages of the Republic of South Africa are Northern Sotho, Sotho, Tswana, Swati, Venda, Tsonga, Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Xhosa and Zulu.
The Soweto Gospel Choir sings in Zulu, Xhosa, and Sotho, depending upon the song.
2007-05-17 16:55:07 · answer #1 · answered by mistress_piper 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Ok, so you know that there are 11 official languages, and you know what they are. But the most commonly spoken languages are English, Afrikaans, and Zulu. If you can speak those three languages, you can talk to 90% of the population.
2007-05-17 18:18:47 · answer #2 · answered by Angelpaws 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dear nanwalrt***
They have various languages as per the song they sing. They sing in English, main language ZULU, and in Xhosa. It depends on the song!!
They have never sung in Afrikaans.
I don't know where the other lady got her information from, but the main language in South Africa is English. Even when the students come to Varsity the examinations are written in ENGLISH!!
luv
peppa-ann
2007-05-17 19:00:28 · answer #3 · answered by peppa-ann 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
By the time you read my answer you should be completely informed of all South African languages. I would how ever like to apologise for WRRRR´s uncalled for racism. Yes unfortunately we have people like him to make things unpleasant.(Fortunately the problem he has is not a colour problem)
2007-05-17 23:03:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Check the official languages list - it's any of those.
2007-05-18 11:50:55 · answer #5 · answered by Unicornrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certainly the singing is in Xhosa. ....
English is the main language for whites but the immigrant settler whites are a very small, unwelcome portion of the country. Afrikaaner tribesmen even try to use English as they are avoiding being stamped with the horrors of the system they built and enforced. They are desperate and confused these days.
Many of the 95% of the country who are African and not white do not speak English, use it only for some ease in economic transactions and are suspicious of English speakers as complicit in the racist economy.
By the way, not a word of this is racialist and so no apology
- these are known facts.
2007-05-17 17:36:28 · answer #6 · answered by WRRRRR 1 · 2⤊ 10⤋