Southern Ndebele

E26699
Bantu language Southern Bantu language language

Southern Ndebele is a Bantu language spoken primarily in South Africa, known for its distinctive click sounds and cultural association with the Ndebele people.

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All labels observed (9)

Label Occurrences
Southern Ndebele canonical 7
Southern Ndebele language 4
Ndebele 2

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language ⓘ
Southern Bantu language ⓘ
language ⓘ
associatedWithEthnicity Ndebele people ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Northern Ndebele ⓘ
surface form: Northern Ndebele language

Xhosa ⓘ
surface form: Xhosa language

Zulu ⓘ
surface form: Zulu language
countryOfficialStatus South Africa ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Southern Ndebele ⓘ
surface form: Transvaal Ndebele

Southern Ndebele ⓘ
surface form: isiNdebele saseNingizimu
hasDialects varieties spoken in Gauteng ⓘ
varieties spoken in Mpumalanga ⓘ
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language ⓘ
hasNativeName isiNdebele ⓘ
hasNounClassSystem Bantu noun classes ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature click consonants ⓘ
hasStandardForm Southern Ndebele self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Standard Southern Ndebele
hasStatus official language of South Africa ⓘ
hasWordOrder SVO ⓘ
iso639-1Code nr ⓘ
iso639-2Code nbl ⓘ
iso639-3Code nbl ⓘ
isOneOf 11 official languages of South Africa ⓘ
isPartOf Nguni languages ⓘ
surface form: Nguni language group
isTaughtAt South African schools ⓘ
languageFamily Atlantic–Congo languages ⓘ
Bantu languages ⓘ
Benue–Congo languages ⓘ
Niger–Congo languages ⓘ
Southern Bantoid ⓘ
surface form: Southern Bantoid languages
languageGroup Nguni languages ⓘ
region Gauteng ⓘ
Limpopo ⓘ
Mpumalanga ⓘ
North West Province ⓘ
surface form: North West (South Africa)
regulator Pan South African Language Board ⓘ
sharesCulturalAssociationWith Ndebele architecture ⓘ
African art ⓘ
surface form: Ndebele art

Ndebele beadwork ⓘ
spokenBy Ndebele people ⓘ
surface form: Ndebele people of South Africa

Ndebele people ⓘ
surface form: Southern Ndebele people
spokenIn South Africa ⓘ
usedIn broadcasting in South Africa ⓘ
education in South Africa ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ

Referenced by (20)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Northern Ndebele → closelyRelatedTo → Southern Ndebele ⓘ
Gauteng → officialLanguage → Southern Ndebele ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ndebele
Southern Africa → hasCulturalHeritage → Southern Ndebele ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ndebele house painting
Xhosa → closelyRelatedTo → Southern Ndebele ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ndebele language
Southern Bantu → hasMemberLanguage → Southern Ndebele ⓘ
nde → closelyRelatedTo → Southern Ndebele ⓘ
Nguni languages → hasMember → Southern Ndebele ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ndebele language
Nguni languages → hasMember → Southern Ndebele ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southern Ndebele language
Nguni languages → TekelaNguniIncludes → Southern Ndebele ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southern Ndebele language
Southern Ndebele → hasAlternativeName → Southern Ndebele ⓘ
this entity surface form: isiNdebele saseNingizimu
Southern Ndebele → hasAlternativeName → Southern Ndebele ⓘ
this entity surface form: Transvaal Ndebele
Southern Ndebele → hasStandardForm → Southern Ndebele self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Standard Southern Ndebele
South African → languageUsed → Southern Ndebele ⓘ
this entity surface form: isiNdebele
Ekurhuleni → officialLanguage → Southern Ndebele ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ndebele
Ndebele beadwork → ethnicGroup → Southern Ndebele ⓘ
Ndebele people → traditionalLanguage → Southern Ndebele ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southern Ndebele language
Atteridgeville → hasLanguage → Southern Ndebele ⓘ
Nguni people → mainLanguage → Southern Ndebele ⓘ
this entity surface form: Southern Ndebele language
Mamelodi → hasLanguage → Southern Ndebele ⓘ
Ivory Park → hasLanguage → Southern Ndebele ⓘ