Freedom Front Policy : Languages   >> See also: First home language according to provinces and Predominant first home languages. Percentage of the population speaking each official language as their first home language – October 1996 Total population = 40,6 million • The most commonly-spoken first home language in South Africa is isiZulu (spoken by 23% of the population: the column on the left of the graph), followed by isiXhosa (18%: second column from the left). Afrikaans (14%) and English (9%), while widely spoken in all provinces, are less frequently used as first home languages than certain of the indigenous languages.

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