The word "Bantu" and its variants mean "people" or "human."
There are about 900 million people in Africa. There are no clear figures, but I would estimate that there are less than 10 million white* people living as citizens in African countries. Most of them are in South Africa. Where white means "People of European descent"
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.
one reason was that some become slaves for boerss, and also later some people from English colonies were brought to Africa to fight for the English during the boer war
Beacause people often speak English instead of other languages./by:guylo Pierre
"African" is not a language. Africa is a continent that contains 54 countries and more than 2100 completely different languages. Some estimates place the number of languages at around 3000. If you have any quesitons about African languages, you will have to specify the language. The most prominent languages spoken in Africa are: Afrikaans Amharic Arabic English French Fula Hausa Igbo Oroma Somali Swahili Yoruba Zulu
Africa has 54 countries and about 1.11 billion people and estimates of up to 3000 different languages or dialects. A lot of people do speak English in Africa.
Officially there are about 7 million South Africans who speak Afrikaans as a first language, with up to 15 million being proficient in Afrikaans. Afrikaans is more prevalent than English as a first language, but is English has a higher incidence as a Second language and is the primary language of tuition.
South Africa is a country where people speak both Afrikaans and English. Afrikaans is one of the official languages of South Africa, while English is widely spoken and used in business, education, and government.
English is spoken as a common language in many countries in Africa, but it is not the primary language for most people. Many African countries have multiple official languages, with English often being one of them.
Mostly all people speak English and afrikaans ( those are the 2 languages learn't in schools) and there are more xhosa speaking people there than zulu :)
The most spoken language of the bantu family of languages spoken in Africa is...UMBUNDU
40 million people live in England, but i don't know how many of them are English sorry. i would expect there would be about 40 million to 45 million English people in the whole world, not sure though! sorry.
As of 2011, there are only 11 languages with more than 100 million native speakers: Mandarin Spanish English Hindi-Urdu Arabic Bengali Portuguese Russian Japanese Punjabi German (borderline)
Burundi, Africa is located around central Africa. The capital city of Burundi is Bujumbura with the official languages being Kirundi and French. Over 8.7 million people call Burundi home.
Mainly English, although there is also a large population of German and Italian speaking people in South Africa as well
The Khoikhoi people speak Khoi, one of Khoisan languages--the Khoisan languages are the click languages--spoken in Southern Africa.
About 3 million people in Burma and Thailand.