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Name: Venda
Type: Language
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 Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup: Venda (S.20) (vnda)
Child Dialects: Ilafuri (ven-ila) Guvhu (ven-guv) Manda (ven-man) Phani (ven-pha) Tavha-Tsindi; Tavhatsindi (ven-tav) Lembetu (ven-lem) Mbedzi (ven-mbe)

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