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From: Keith Meintjes <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Language Groups: Numbers
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 23:00:45 -0500


And so, Dennis is correct:

In statistics, and in discussion lists, each person is allowed only one
language.

Keith

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"John Hunt" <> wrote:

Hi List and Dennis,
Mea culpa—the snow must have made me blind! The numbers are of course
percentages, not millions. Thanks for pointing it out. 99.5 is close to
100. I corrected it on the table below this message.
John Hunt.


>From: "Dennis Pretorius" <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: Re: [ZA] Language Groups: Numbers
>Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 19:54:26 +0200
>
>Hall John
>
>You list of people add up to about 99,5 million whereas the official
>population in the 2001 census is 44,8 million.
>
>Is the number not possibly a percentage - adding up to 100 - or maybe the
>number op people able to speak that language - not necessarily their home
>language? (ie bilingual people counted twice?)
>
>I would be interested to find out
>
>Kind regards
>
>Dennis Pretorius
>Commercial Genealogical Researcher/Kommersiële Genealogiese Navorser
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>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Hunt" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 1:04 AM
>Subject: [ZA] Language Groups: Numbers
>
>
> > Hi Listers,
> > I hope this e-mail works better than my last. Hotmail is a problem
>to
> > get to know.
> > The small fact-book SA 2003-4, by Editors Inc on P 31 gives the
> > following:
> >
> > Zulu: 22.9 Percent
Xhosa: 17.9
> > Afrikaans: 14.4*
> > Pedi: 9.2
> > English: 8.6
> > Tswana: 8.2
> > Sotho: 7.7
> > Tsonga: 4.4
> > Swati: 2.5
> > Venda: 2.2
> > Ndebele: 1.5
> >
> > *I presume the high number of Afrikaans-speakers includes the
>Coloured
> > people. So these are language groups and not purely ethnic groups.
> > Regards to all.
> > John Hunt from snowbound West Virginia. 2/3 of our schools closed
> > today!
> >
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