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Preferred term

venVenda  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Venda, also known as or , is a Bantu language and an official language of South Africa. The majority of Venda speakers live in the northern part of South Africa's Limpopo Province, but about 10% of speakers live in Zimbabwe. The Venda language is related to Kalanga (Western Shona, different from Shona, official language of Zimambwe) which is spoken in Botswana and Zimbabwe. During the Apartheid era of South Africa, the bantustan of Venda was set up to cover the Venda speakers of South Africa.

Entry terms

  • Venda language

ISO 639-1 code

  • ve

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • ven

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • ven

ISO 639-3 code

  • ven

Notation

  • ven

In other languages

  • venda

    French

  • Venda
  • Tshivenda

    German

  • Venda-Sprache
  • venda

    Italian

  • Lingua venda
  • Portuguese

  • Língua venda
  • venda

    Spanish

  • Idioma venda

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ven

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