	Languages spoken in South Africa, by province
Category	Demographics
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Description	The percentage of the population that speaks each of South Africa's 12 official languages most often in the household by province from Statistics South Africa's 1996, 2001, 2011 and 2022 national censuses.
Source	Census 2022. Cultural Dynamics in South Africa, StatsSA
Data	11 columns, 14 rows
Headers	gauteng limpopo language free_state mpumalanga north_west eastern_cape south_africa western_cape kwazulu-natal northern_cape
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gauteng	limpopo	language	free_state	mpumalanga	north_west	eastern_cape	south_africa	western_cape	kwazulu-natal	northern_cape
100	100	Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
12.7	55.6	Sepedi	0.2	10.2	2.1	0	10	0.1	0.1	0.1
2.4	17.4	Tshivenda	0.1	0.2	0.4	0	2.5	0.1	0	0
7	17.2	Xitsonga	0.2	10.6	3.2	0.1	4.7	0.2	0	0.1
7.8	2.3	Afrikaans	10.3	3.3	5.1	9.5	10.6	41.1	1.1	54.6
3.7	2.1	Other	0.7	1.2	2.5	0.9	2.1	3.3	0.7	1.1
10.3	1.3	Setswana	5.3	1.6	72.8	0	8.3	0.1	0	35.7
3	1.2	IsiNdebele	0.1	9.8	0.5	0.1	1.7	0.2	0	0
9.1	1	English	1.6	1.5	1.1	4.9	8.7	22.1	14.3	2.1
13.1	0.8	Sesotho	72.2	2.2	5.8	2.4	7.8	1	0.6	1.1

Languages spoken in South Africa, by province