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South Africa's 11 official languages: South Africa has eleven official languages. In alphabetical order they are: Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho (now more commonly known as Pedi), Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa and isiZulu.  There are two main groups of the Bantu languages, the Nguni group and the Sotho group. The Nguni languages include Xhosa, Zulu, Swazi and Ndebele. The Sotho group includes Sesotho, Northern Sotho (Pedi/Sepedi) and Tswana.  Here are some greetings in the different languages: (go to   www.travelground.com/blog/greetings-11-official-languages Afrikaans: Hoe gaan dit met jou? English: How are you? isiNdebele: Unjani? Sepedi: Le Kae? Sesotho: O Kae?  siSwati: Unjani? Xitsonga: Ku njhani? Setswana: O tsogile jang? Tshivenda: Vho vuwa hani?  isiXhosa: Unjani? isiZula: Unjani? In order for you to know where these languages are spoken in South Africa, here is firstly a map of the pro...

Pacifika languages of New Zealand: I have been in Auckland, New Zealand for a month and a half now. I have been staying with my sister and her husband in Papakura, a suburb in the south of Auckland. Whilst here I am attending the Papakura Wesleyan Church and community centre and have discovered far more cultures than I was aware existed here. The term 'Pasifika' is used to describe all the different people from the surrounding islands in the South Pacific. Living in New Zealand are, besides the Maori, Samoans, Cook islanders, Tongans, Tuvaluans, Fijians, Niueans, Tokelauans and Kiribatians. Most Pasifika languages, Rob Finlay, previously the Adviser Pasifika in Services to Schools in the National Library of New Zealand, tells me, are Polynesian (Austronesian). Here is an informal 'Hello' in all the Pasifika languages mentioned above: (from  http://www.mpp.govt.nz/languag e-culture-and-identity/pacific -language-weeks/ ) In Samoan: Talofa! In Cook Island Maori: ...