South Africa's 11 Official Languages

For a map showing the distribution and number of speakers of each language by province, click on each language.  The maps were made with Microsoft Excel's Microsoft Map by first-year geography students, with one exception, at the University of Fort Hare in Alice, SA.

Source: SA Census (1996)

Here's a table that summarizes the data in all of the maps.

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Created 8 April 2001 by Jim Hathaway