GK
COUNTRY LANGUAGES
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France
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Mauritius
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Nicaragua
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Zimbabwe
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Detailed explanation-1: -However, English, Shona and Ndebele are the most widely spoken languages in the country. Approximately 70% of the population is Shona speaking and speaks ChiShona as their first language. But the official language of Zimbabwe is English.
Detailed explanation-2: -Southern Transvaal Ndebele is one of the eleven official languages in the Republic of South Africa. The language is a Nguni or Zunda classification (UN) spoken mostly in the Mpumalanga Province, Gauteng, Limpopo and the Northwest.
Detailed explanation-3: -A Niger-Congo language and a member of the Nguni subgroup of Bantu (along with Xhosa, Zulu and Swati). Nguni languages are unique among the Bantu family in the use of click sounds as consonants. These sounds were borrowed form the neighbouring Khoisan languages.
Detailed explanation-4: -The country’s main languages are Shona, spoken by over 70% of the population, and Ndebele, spoken by roughly 20%. English is the country’s lingua franca, used in government and business and as the main medium of instruction in schools.