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Name:
Venda
Alternate Names:
Chivenda; Cevenda; Tshivenda
Spoken in:
South Africa, Zimbabwe
Number of speakers:
980,000 in South Africa (2006), increasing. Population total all countries: 1,064,000
(Ethnologue)
Code:
ven
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup:
Venda (S.20) (vnda)
Child Dialects:
Phani (ven-pha)
Manda (ven-man)
Ilafuri (ven-ila)
Lembetu (ven-lem)
Mbedzi (ven-mbe)
Tavha-Tsindi; Tavhatsindi (ven-tav)
Guvhu (ven-guv)
Map of Venda
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