Rainbow nation Also, many people call it the rainbow nation because of what Nelson Mandela did to change policies of aparhthied. Multi-cultural South Africa speaks 11 languages, and that's just the main languages. South Africa speaks many more, languages. The variety of languages, matches the variety of its peoples.
There are many native languages spoken in South Africa.
Eleven official languages:AfrikaansEnglishNdebeleNorthern SothoSothoSwaziTswanaTsongaVendaXhosaZulu
South Africa has 11 official languages: Afrikaans English IsiNdebele IsiXhosa IsiZulu Sesotho sa Leboa (Northern Sotho) Sesotho Setswana siSwati Tshivenda Xitsonga
There is no language called "African." Africa is a huge continent with many languages. Perhaps you mean "Afrikaans," spoken in South Africa?
Around 2500 languages r spoken in Africa
There are 11 different official languages of South Africa: Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa and Zulu.
before colonization (1652) there was no "official" language in the area now called "South Africa"; the area was inhabited by a number of black tribes who each spoke their own language and dialects of languages including (but not limited to) Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho, San/ Koi etc.
I don't know how many but I know that Ireland is one of them. English and Irish are the offical languages here.
Africa has the highest number of spoken languages, with estimates ranging from 1500 to 2000 different languages spoken across the continent.
Kenyan children learn many different languages. Kenya is a multi-language country, Swahili and English being it's offical languages. However, there is 62 languages spoken in Kenya.
Actually there are thousands of languages in Africa..some are yet to be named to man.