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Venda / Tshivenda (Tshivenḓa)
Native to: South Africa, Zimbabwe
Region: Limpopo Province
Native speakers: 1.3 million (2011 census) / 1.7 million L2 speakers in South Africa (2002)
Language family: Niger–Congo

is a Bantu language and an official language of South Africa. It is mainly spoken by the Venda people in the northern part of South Africa's Limpopo Province, as well as by some Lemba people in Zimbabwe. The Venda language is related to Kalanga, which is spoken in Zimbabwe and Botswana. During the apartheid era of South Africa, the bantustan of Venda was set up to cover the Venda speakers of South Africa.

According to the 2011 census, Venda speakers are concentrated in the following areas: Makhado Local Municipality, with 350,000 people; Thulamela Local Municipality, with 370,000 people; Musina Local Municipality, with 35,000 people; and Mutale Local Municipality, with 89,000 people. The total number of speakers in Vhembe district currently stands at 844,000. In Gauteng province, there are 275,000 Venda speakers. Fewer than 10,000 are spread across the rest of the country - for a total number of Venda speakers in South Africa at 1.2 million people or just 2.2% of South Africa's population, making Venda speakers the second smallest minority language in South Africa, after the Ndebele language, which number 1.1 million speakers.

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LINKS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venda_language
https://www.scribd.com/doc/99457571/Tshivenda-is-Being-Learned
https://omniglot.com/writing/venda.htm
https://www.jw.org/en/