Languages spoken in South Africa, by province | |
| Category | Demographics |
| Tags | No tags |
| 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 |
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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 |