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Venda belongs to the Venda Group of Bantu (Guthrie S21). (Webbook)
It is also known as Tshivenda or Tsivenda.
Ethnologue lists the classification as: Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, S, Venda (S.20)
It is spoken in South Africa and Zimbabwe
According to Ethnologue:
According to Ethnologue:
Venda is an official language in South Africa.
Venda is used in government notices in South Africa. It is also an important regional language and used on internal radio broadcasts by the South African Broadcasting Company. (Webbook)
Literacy rate in South Africa (according to Ethnologue):
Venda has a Latin-based orthography that includes five diacritic characters (each in upper and lower case). See the detailed discussion at Venda orthography.
The diacritic characters are: Ṅ ṅ Ḓ ḓ Ḽ ḽ Ṋ ṋ Ṱ ṱ
See http://www.africanlanguages.com/venda/ for more information.
See also:
A sample text is shown on the "Language Museum" site: http://www.language-museum.com/v/venda.php
A Unicode font should suffice (need info on ranges).
A South African multilingual keyboard for different operating systems is available at http://translate.org.za/content/view/24/41/
The South African language site "Batho Portal" http://www.sediba.org.za/ has a section on & in TshiVenda.
AfricanLanguages.com has three short stories by Mbodi Khorombi online:
Wikipedia in Venda at http://ve.wikipedia.org/ (about 70-80 articles as of 5-2007)
Translate.org.za has facilitated localisation of the following into Venda (list not necessarily complete):
Open-Tran.eu supports Venda: http://ven.open-tran.eu
AfricanLanguages.com, "Tshivenda (Venda)," http://africanlanguages.com/venda/
Dwyer, David (1997), Webbook of African Languages, http://www.isp.msu.edu/AfrLang/hiermenu.html (page on "Venda," http://www.isp.msu.edu/AfrLang/Venda_root.html )
SIL International, Ethnologue: Languages of the World, "Venda," http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ven
SIL International, "ISO 639 Code Tables," http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp
U.S. Library of Congress, "ISO 639.2: Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages: Alpha-3 codes arranged alphabetically by the English name of language," http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/English_list.php
Wikipedia, "Venda language,"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venda_language
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