{"id":319760,"date":"2019-06-01T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=319760"},"modified":"2019-05-31T16:57:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T14:57:27","slug":"these-are-the-most-spoken-languages-in-south-africa-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/319760\/these-are-the-most-spoken-languages-in-south-africa-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the most-spoken languages in South Africa in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>StatSA has released its latest General Household Survey (GHS), revealing the most popular languages in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The statistics are based on the languages most commonly spoken at home, and outside of the house\u00a0 &#8211; including at work and school.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, just over one quarter (25,3%) of individuals speak isiZulu at home, while 14.8% of individuals speak isiXhosa, and 12.2% speak Afrikaans.<\/p>\n<p>English is spoken by 8.1% of individuals at home, making it the sixth most common home language in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>English is, however, the second most commonly spoken language outside the household (16.6%) after isiZulu (25.1%), and preceding. IsiXhosa (12.8%).<\/p>\n<p>StatsSA said it\u00a0is notable that the use of most languages outside the household declined &#8211; with the exceptions of isiZulu and Setswana.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Language-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319762 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Language-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1169\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Language-1.png 1169w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Language-1-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Language-1-768x311.png 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Language-1-1024x415.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1169px) 100vw, 1169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to StatsSA&#8217;s data, the Indian\/Asian population group is the most monolingual with 92.1% speaking English at home.<\/p>\n<p>More than three-quarters (77.4%) of coloured individuals speak Afrikaans at home while 20.1% use English.<\/p>\n<p>More than three-fifths (61,2%) of white South Africans speak Afrikaans and 36.3% speak English.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, black Africans speak a much larger variety of languages, StatsSA said.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the two most commonly spoken languages, isiZulu (31.1%) and isiXhosa (18.2%), notable sub-groups of black African individuals also spoke Sepedi (12.4%), Setswana (11.1%) and Sesotho (9.7%).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/310776\/south-african-schools-will-soon-get-these-8-new-subjects-including-coding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South African schools will soon get these 8 new subjects \u2013 including coding<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StatSA has released its latest General Household Survey (GHS), revealing the most popular languages in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":104555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26,5769],"class_list":["post-319760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-statssa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320799,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319760\/revisions\/320799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}