nr
Technical information about ISO 639 language code nr
The table below provides technical details for the South Ndebele language, designated by the nr
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
South Ndebele belongs to the Niger-Congo language family, specifically to the Bantu subgroup. It is one of the official languages of South Africa and is written using the Latin script (Ndebele alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 1 million speakers worldwide.
Speakers
1.1M
*The graph shows a rough estimate of South Ndebele speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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