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Nguni?

The nine official Bantu languages of South Africa aren't all Nguni. Is Nguni not only comprised of Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele and Swati? Sesotho and Northern Sotho (and maybe even Tswana, but I'm not sure) are Sotho languages, not Nguni languages. Joziboy 23 March 2006, 20:10 (UTC)

According to Ethnologue there are four Nguni languages. :) // Big Adamsky • BA's talk page 20:35, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Call for merger

This page should be merged as fast as possible with Other languages of South Africa, which has a less official "feel" to it, but whose coverage of languages is wider than Languages of South Africa. There is no rationale to keep them separate. Anyone? — Sotho of the South 14:27, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I absolutely agree. Since when have these been apart? — mark ✎ 14:38, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A quick check revealed nothing substantially different, so I have redirected Other languages of South Africa to this article and will delete the obsolete redirect in a few days. Until then, the original content can still be found in this revision. In the meantime, the scope of the current article will need to widened to include all languages spoken in South Africa, along the lines of Languages of Uganda and Languages of Mali. — mark ✎ 14:45, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Mark. Looks great. I made minor additions to the Languages_of_SA article, based on the one being scrapped. — Sotho of the South 11:00, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See that page's discussion page for rationale. --Uxejn 21:59, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. No good arguments to unredirect it surfaced in the discussion, so I've redirected it again to the relevant section here. — mark ✎ 10:04, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Constitution

Where does:

The Constitution also recognises a further eight non-official "national languages":

Fanagalo, Lobedu (Khilobedu), Northern Ndebele (Sindebele), Phuthi (Siphuthi), South African Sign Language, Khoe, Nama, San (Khoisan/Khoesan) languages

come from? The 1st four are not in the version of the constititution I use. See Chapter 1, section 6. --Uxejn 21:52, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reversions

Please do not buck the consensus we have reached regarding the spelling of the official South Africa languages. i.e. Xhosa, Zulu, etc. I have to warn ZyXoas that if he continues to undo all changes and attempts to exert 'ownership' over Wiki pages, then he will be reported for unreasonable behavior and the 3RR rule will be invoked. He may well be blocked from editing. Please behave. Thank you. 196.30.118.76 18:54, 24 April 2007 (UTC) DawnTreader[reply]

OK, I'm tired of seeing incorrect reversions. I've reported Zyxaos for his Edit War and general conduct. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/3RR 196.207.40.213 20:49, 24 April 2007 (UTC)DawnTreader[reply]

Please note that for the purposes of 3RR, there are no 'incorrect' or 'correct' reversions. The 3RR applies to you as well, so please stop the edit warring. — mark ✎ 09:50, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mark, from what I can see this issue has been going on for a long time on several topics. (Just look at the history ...) Call it what you like, you are part of it. If you haven't the canolis to put a stop to it, then I will! It doesn't help Wiki or the article to have editors trying to 'own' pages.196.207.40.213 11:42, 25 April 2007 (UTC) DawnTreader[reply]

I'm most definitely not part of it. Sure, I have been active in debates surrounding this issue, but that's quite different from the revert warring that has been going on over the last few days. Please get your facts straight. If you think to can put a stop to it by revert warring, fine. I won't, not because I don't have 'the canolis', but because I think edit warring is pointless, especially about a minor issue like this. — mark ✎ 11:51, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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	Mark, from what I can see this issue has been going on for a long time on several topics. (Just look at the history ...) Call it what you like, you are part of it. If you haven't the canolis to put a stop to it, then I will! It doesn't help Wiki or the article to have editors trying to 'own' pages.[[User:196.207.40.213\|196.207.40.213]] 11:42, 25 April 2007 (UTC) DawnTreader		Mark, from what I can see this issue has been going on for a long time on several topics. (Just look at the history ...) Call it what you like, you are part of it. If you haven't the canolis to put a stop to it, then I will! It doesn't help Wiki or the article to have editors trying to 'own' pages.[[User:196.207.40.213\|196.207.40.213]] 11:42, 25 April 2007 (UTC) DawnTreader

			:I'm most definitely not part of it. Sure, I have been active in debates surrounding this issue, but that's quite different from the revert warring that has been going on over the last few days. Please get your facts straight. If you think to can put a stop to it by revert warring, fine. I won't, not because I don't have 'the canolis', but because I think edit warring is pointless, especially about a minor issue like this. — [[User:Mark Dingemanse\|mark]] [[User Talk:Mark Dingemanse\|✎]] 11:51, 25 April 2007 (UTC)