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by executesorder66 3330 days ago
> South Africa is a predominantly anglophone country, with 11 official languages. Afrikaans isn't even one of the top 2 mother tongues.

Yes but it's 3rd after Zulu and Xhosa.

And I find it amusing that you say that SA is a predominantly anglophone country, when more people speak Afrikaans in South Africa than English. [0]

    +-----------+-------------+-------------+------------+
    | Language  | L1 speakers | L2 speakers | Total      |
    +-----------+-------------+-------------+------------+
    | Afrikaans | 7,218,390   | 10,300,000  | 17,518,390 |
    +-----------+-------------+-------------+------------+
    | English   | 4,890,000   | 11,000,000  | 15,890,000 |
    +-----------+-------------+-------------+------------+
[0] https://www.ethnologue.com/country/ZA/languages (this link has links to more references)