Language code: ve
Technical information about ISO 639 language code ve
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The table below provides technical details for the Venda language, designated by the ve code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Venda Native Tshivenḓa |
| Family | Bantu |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | TshimbedziTshiilafuri (South-western Venda)Tshiphani (North-western Venda)Tshilembethu |
| Related languages | Tsonga (Xitsonga)ShonaNorthern Sotho (Sepedi)Tswana |
| Key facts | Uses special Latin letters with under-dots such as ḓ, ṱ, and ṋHas a noun-class system with about 16 classes, typical of Bantu languagesTone is phonemic and contrasts up to four pitch patternsVocabulary shows noticeable borrowing and convergence with neighbouring Sotho–Tsonga and Shona varietiesFirst complete Bible translation appeared in 1936 and helped to stabilise modern orthography |
| Sample phrase | Ndaa, ni khou ita hani? |
| Character encodings | |
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Venda belongs to the Niger-Congo language family, specifically to the Bantu subgroup. It is one of the official languages in South Africa, and it is used in some parts of Zimbabwe. It is written using the Latin script (Venda alphabet). It is estimated that there are around 3 million speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Venda speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
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- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ