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are not clear but may currently stand at a million. The people are concentrated in the South of the country but also spread to other towns and cities. There is also a significant number of them in neighbouring South Africa where they are
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falling tone occurs only in sequences of more than one vowel or on the penultimate syllable if the vowel is long. Tone patterns exist independently of the
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sound appears in prenasalised consonant sounds. Labiovelar sounds occur as alternatives to labiopalatal sounds and may also be pronounced
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Webb, Vic. 2002. "Language in South Africa: the role of language in national transformation, reconstruction and development."
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Geographical distribution of Tshivenda in South Africa: proportion of the population that speaks Tshivenda at home.
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Geographical distribution of Tshivenda in South Africa: density of Tshivenda home-language speakers.
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is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them.
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Initial high tone spreads. With an immediately preceding high tone, that initial tone is lost.
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The pitch peaks on the tonic syllable, and a preceding non-adjacent high tone merges into it.
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Unmarked (low) tone is raised after a high tone. That is, the preceding tone spreads.
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Netshisaulu N.C & Nyoni A. 2021. Tshivenḓa Tsho Vhibvaho. World wide Publishers
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A preceding high tone spreads but drops before the final high tone.
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There are five vowel sounds and two high vowels in Tshivenḓa.
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characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see
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is syllabic , when the following syllable begins with
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with five additional accented letters. There are four
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is syllabic when the following syllable begins with
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Index

TshiVenda
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Mozambique
Limpopo
Venda
L2 speakers
Language family
Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Volta-Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Southern Bantoid
Bantu
Southern Bantu
Writing system
Latin
Venda Braille
Ditema tsa Dinoko
Signed forms
Signed Venda
Zimbabwe
South Africa
ISO 639-1
ve
ISO 639-2
ven
ISO 639-3
ven

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