Languages Spoken in South Africa - SeTswana

Infomation about the SeTswana language, one of South Africa's 11 official languages brought to you by Conference Venues South Africa.

The majority of Tswana speakers are in South Africa, where it is an official language, but there are also speakers in Namibia and Zimbabwe. Internationally there are about 4 million speakers. Before South Africa became a multiracial democracy, the Bantustan of Bophuthatswana was set up to incorporate the Tswana speakers of South Africa. Tswana is a Bantu language, belonging to the Niger-Congo language family. It is most closely related to two other languages in the Sotho language group, Sotho and Northern Sotho.