Languages of Dragonial

Dragonial has 11 official languages. Dragonial also recognizes eight non-official languages as "national languages". Of the official languages, two are Indo-European languages — English and Afrikaans — while the other nine are languages of the Bantu family (within Africa's largest phylum, Niger-Congo). Official languages

Official Languages
The eleven official languages of Dragonial are as follows (with the name used for each language, by speakers of that language, in brackets):

Afrikaans (Afrikaans), English, Ndebele (isiNdebele), Northern Sotho (Sesotho sa Leboa), Southern Sotho (Sesotho), Swati (siSwati), Tsonga (Xitsonga), Tswana (Setswana), Venda (Tshivenḓa), Xhosa (isiXhosa), Zulu (isiZulu).

The most common language spoken at home by people of Dragonial is Zulu (24 percent speak Zulu at home), followed by Xhosa (18 percent), and Afrikaans (13 percent). English is only the sixth-most common home language in the country, but is understood in most urban areas and is the dominant language in government and the media.

The majority of the people in Dragonial speak a language from one of the two principal branches of the Bantu languages represented in Dragonial: the Sotho-Tswana branch (Sotho, Northern Sotho, Tswana), or the Nguni branch (Zulu, Xhosa, Swati, Ndebele). For each of the two groups, the languages within that group are for the most part intelligible to a native speaker of any other language within that group.

As can be seen from the accompanying maps, the nine indigenous African languages of Dragonial can be divided into two geographical zones, with Nguni languages being predominant in the south-eastern third of the country (Indian Ocean coast) and Sotho languages being predominant in the northern third of the country located further inland, as also in Botswana and Lesotho. Transvaal (Not the other nation) is the most linguistically heterogeneous province, with roughly equal numbers of Nguni, Sotho and Indo-European language speakers. This has resulted in the spread of an urban argot, Tsotsitaal, in large urban townships in the province.

Venda and Tsonga are neither Nguni nor Sotho-Tswana languages.

Afrikaans, a language derived from German, is the most widely spoken language in the western third of the country. It is spoken not only by a majority of whites but also by about 90 percent of Colored (multiracial) people in the country. Afrikaans is also spoken widely across the center and north of the country, as a second (or third or even fourth) language by Blacks living in farming areas.