The Southern Ndebele language (isiNdebele or Nrebele in Southern Ndebele) is an African language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages and spoken by the amaNdebele (the Ndebele people of South Africa).There is also another separate dialect called Northern Ndebele or Matabele spoken in Zimbabwe and Botswana – see Sindebele language. The Zimbabwean and South African Ndebele dialect is closer to Zulu than other Nguni dialects
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ISO 639-1 code
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ISO 639-2 code
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ISO 639-3 code
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family
Bantu languages, Benue–Congo languages, Atlantic–Congo languages, Southern Bantoid languages
spoken in
Gauteng, Mpumalanga, North West (South African province), South Africa, Limpopo
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