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'Venda', also known as 'Tshivenda', or 'Luvenda', is a Bantu language. The majority of Venda speakers live in South Africa (where Venda is an official language), but there are also speakers in Zimbabwe. Before South Africa became a democratic country, the bantustan of Venda was set up to cover the Venda speakers of South Africa.

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Classification

Geographic distribution

Official status

External links

Software

Classification

Venda belongs to the Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo languages.

Geographic distribution

Venda is spoken by about 666,000 people in the northern part of South Africa's Limpopo Province, as well as 84,000 people in Zimbabwe.

Official status

Venda is an official language in South Africa.

External links

★ Ethnologue entry for Venda

★ Tshivenda - South African Languages

★ Batho Portal Welcome page in Venda

★ PanAfrican L10n page on Venda

Software

★ Spell checker for OpenOffice.org and Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox web-browser, and Mozilla Thunderbird email program in Venda

★ Translate.org.za Project to translate Free and Open Source Software into all the official languages of South Africa including Venda

★ Keyboard with extra venda characters