Xhosa

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A language of South Africa

Eastern Cape province: east of Middelburg and Port Elizabeth; Northern Cape province: southeast Pixley ka Seme municipality; KwaZulu-Natal province: Ugu and Sisonke municipalities; Free State: border area, west of Lesotho.

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Botswana

Language NameXhosa

User Population

9,300 in Botswana (2003 J. Leclerc).

Language Status

Unestablished.

Other Comments

Non-indigenous.

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Lesotho

Language NameXhosa

User Population

24,000 in Lesotho (Leclerc 2017f).

Location

Qacha’s Nek district: villages near Sinxondo, Tele Valley, and Tosing in Sebapala valley central mountains and inland; Quthing district: south of Quthing city.

Alternate Names

Isixhosa

Language Status

5* (Dispersed).

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Zimbabwe

Language NameXhosa

User Population

33,000 in Zimbabwe (2021 Joshua Project), based on ethnicity. Ethnic population: 200,000 (Kunju 2017).

Location

Matabeleland North: Bubi district, Kenilworth and Motapa areas; Matabeleland South: Insiza and Umzingwane districts, Bembesi, Filabusi, and Fort Rixon areas.

Language Status

5* (Dispersed). Recognized language (2013, Constitution, Article 6(1)).

Other Comments

Non-indigenous.

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