South_Africa_2011_dominant_language_map_(hex_cells).svg


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English: Map showing the dominant home languages in South Africa, according to Census 2011, using data aggregated to regular 50km 2 hexagonal cells. In this context, a language is dominant if it more than 50% of the population in a ward speak it at home, or more than 33% speak it and no other language is spoken by more than 25%.
English
Afrikaans
isiNdebele
isiXhosa
isiZulu
Sesotho sa Leboa
Sesotho
Setswana
siSwati
Tshivenda
Xitsonga
No language dominant
Very sparsely populated
Projection is Albers Equal-Area Conic, with standard parallels at 24° S and 33° S and central meridian at 25° E.
Date
Source Statistics South Africa's Census 2011 (Small Area Layer) is the source of the basic population data. The map results from my own processing of the data.
Author Htonl
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12 March 2021