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Name:
Ndebele
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Tabele; Tebele; Isinde'bele; Sindebele; Northern Ndebele
Spoken in:
Botswana, Zimbabwe
Number of speakers:
1,550,000 in Zimbabwe (Johnstone and Mandryk 2001). Population total all countries: 1,572,800
(Ethnologue)
Code:
nde
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup:
Nguni (S.40) (guni)
Map of Ndebele
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