Languages

South Africa recognizes eleven languages as official languages, though the principal two are of European origin: the Englishman used as vehicle of communication between all the South Africans and the afrikáans derived from the Dutch, is used by the bóer and also by the coloured. Other official languages are ndebele, sesotho (sotho southern), sotho north, tswana (these three languages of the group shoto), swazi, tsonga, it bandages, xhosa and zulú.