Southern Ndebele

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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.

Aliases (8)

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Bantu language → Southern Bantu language → language →
associatedWithEthnicity	Ndebele people →
closelyRelatedTo	Northern Ndebele language → Xhosa language → Zulu language →
countryOfficialStatus	South Africa →
hasAlternativeName	Transvaal Ndebele → isiNdebele saseNingizimu →
hasDialects	varieties spoken in Gauteng → varieties spoken in Mpumalanga →
hasLinguisticTypology	agglutinative language →
hasNativeName	isiNdebele →
hasNounClassSystem	Bantu noun classes →
hasPhonologicalFeature	click consonants →
hasStandardForm	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 language group →
isTaughtAt	South African schools →
languageFamily	Atlantic–Congo languages → Bantu languages → Benue–Congo languages → Niger–Congo languages → Southern Bantoid languages →
languageGroup	Nguni languages →
region	Gauteng → Limpopo → Mpumalanga → North West (South Africa) →
regulator	Pan South African Language Board →
sharesCulturalAssociationWith	Ndebele architecture → Ndebele art → Ndebele beadwork →
spokenBy	Ndebele people of South Africa → Southern Ndebele people →
spokenIn	South Africa →
usedIn	broadcasting in South Africa → education in South Africa →
writingSystem	Latin script →

Referenced by (14)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Northern Ndebele → Xhosa ("Ndebele language") → nde →	closelyRelatedTo
Southern Ndebele ("isiNdebele saseNingizimu") → Southern Ndebele ("Transvaal Ndebele") →	hasAlternativeName
Nguni languages ("Ndebele language") → Nguni languages ("Southern Ndebele language") →	hasMember
Ekurhuleni ("Ndebele") → Gauteng ("Ndebele") →	officialLanguage
Southern Africa ("Ndebele house painting") →	hasCulturalHeritage
Southern Bantu →	hasMemberLanguage
Southern Ndebele ("Standard Southern Ndebele") →	hasStandardForm
South African ("isiNdebele") →	languageUsed
Nguni languages ("Southern Ndebele language") →	TekelaNguniIncludes