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=== Languages === [[File:Johannesburg dominant language map.svg|thumb|Geographical distribution of home languages in Johannesburg {{div col|colwidth=10em|content= {{legend|#8dd3c7|[[Afrikaans]]}} {{legend|#ffffb3|[[South African English|English]]}} {{legend|#bebada|[[Southern Ndebele language|Ndebele]]}} {{legend|#fb8072|[[Xhosa language|Xhosa]]}} {{legend|#80b1d3|[[Zulu language|Zulu]]}} {{legend|#fdb462|[[Northern Sotho language|Northern Sotho]]}} {{legend|#b3de69|[[Sotho language|Sotho]]}} {{legend|#fccde5|[[Tswana language|Tswana]]}} {{legend|#ccebc5|[[Venda language|Venda]]}} {{legend|#ffed6f|[[Tsonga language|Tsonga]]}} {{legend|#d0d0d0|No language dominant}} }}]] 32% of Johannesburg residents speak [[Nguni languages]] at home, 24% speak [[Sotho languages]], 18% speak English, 7% speak [[Afrikaans]] and 6% speak [[Tshivenda]]. {| class="wikitable" |- !Gender !Population !% |- | Female | 473,148 | 49.42 |- | Male | 484,293 | 50.58 |} {| class="wikitable" |- !Race !Population !% |- | [[Bantu peoples of South Africa|Black African]] | 614,793 | 64.21 |- | [[White South African|White]] | 133,379 | 13.93 |- | [[Coloured]] | 133,029 | 13.89 |- | [[Asian South African|Asian]] | 63,918 | 6.68 |- |Other |12,320 |1.29 |} {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! [[First language]] ! Population<ref name="census2011" /><ref name="census2011 gov.za">{{Cite web |last=Africa |first=Statistics South |title=Local Municipality {{!}} Statistics South Africa |url=http://www.statssa.gov.za/?page_id=993 |access-date=2021-08-22 |language=en-US |archive-date=22 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170722214641/http://www.statssa.gov.za/?page_id=993 |url-status=live }}</ref> ! % |- | [[Zulu language|Zulu]] | 1,022,747 | 23.41 |- |- | [[Sesotho language|Sotho]] | 420,117 | 9.61 |- | [[Xhosa language|Xhosa]] | 298,523 | 6.83 |- | [[Afrikaans]] | 318,063 | 7.28 |- | [[Tswana language|Tswana]] | 335,713 | 7.68 |- | [[Sepedi]] | 317,277 | 7.26 |- | [[South African English|English]] | 878,230 | 20.10 |- | [[Tsonga language|Tsonga]] | 287,625 | 6.58 |- | [[Swazi language|Swazi]] | 35,926 | 0.82 |- | [[Venda language|Venda]] | 141,435 | 3.24 |- | [[Southern Ndebele language|Ndebele]] | 126,587 | 2.90 |- | [[Languages of South Africa|Other]] | 168,566 | 3.86 |- | [[South African Sign Language|Sign language]] | 18,793 | 0.43 |}
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