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Northern Ndebele language
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| Northern Ndebele | ||
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| Title page of one of the earliest Sindebele phrase books: |
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| Spoken in: |  Zimbabwe Botswana |
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| Region: | Matabeleland North, Matabeleland South in Zimbabwe; North-East District in Botswana | |
| Total speakers: | 1,558,000 | |
| Language family: | Niger-Congo Atlantic-Congo Volta-Congo Benue-Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu Central Bantu Group S Nguni Northern Ndebele |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | nd | |
| ISO 639-2: | nde | |
| ISO 639-3: | nde | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Northern Ndebele language, or isiNdebele, or Sindebele, is an African language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, and spoken by the Ndebele or Matabele people of Zimbabwe. It is commonly known as Sindebele.
Sindebele is related to the Zulu language spoken in South Africa. This is because the Ndebele people of Zimbabwe descend from followers of the Zulu leader Mzilikazi, who left kwaZulu in the early nineteenth century during the Mfecane.
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Languages of the Republic of Zimbabwe |
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 Languages of the Republic of South Africa |
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| Official languages |
| Non-official languages
Fanagalo · Kxoe · Lobedu · Nama · Northern Ndebele · Phuthi · Tsotsitaal · Other Khoisan · South African Sign Language |