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Technical information about ISO 639 language code tn
The table below provides technical details for the Tswana language, designated by the tn
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
Tswana, also known as Setswana, belongs to the Niger-Congo language family, more specifically to the Bantu subgroup. It is one of the official languages in Botswana and South Africa, and is also used in some parts of Namibia. It is written using the Latin script (Tswana alphabet). It is estimated that there are around 13 million speakers worldwide.
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Tswana speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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