<Tr> <Th> Total </Th> <Th> 100.0% </Th> <Th> 100.0% </Th> </Tr> <P> Other languages spoken in South Africa, though not mentioned in the Constitution, include Fanagalo, Lobedu (Khilobedu), Northern Ndebele (Sindebele), Phuthi (Siphuthi). Lobedu has been variously claimed to be a dialect of Northern Sotho and an autonomous language . Fanagalo is a pidgin often used as a lingua franca in the mining industry . </P> <P> Significant numbers of immigrants from Europe, elsewhere in Africa, and the Indian subcontinent means that a wide variety of other languages can also be found in parts of South Africa . In the older immigrant communities there are: Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Portuguese, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Yiddish, Italian and smaller numbers of Dutch, French and German speakers . </P> <P> These non-official languages may be used in limited semi-official use where it has been determined that these languages are prevalent . More importantly, these languages have significant local functions in specific communities whose identity is tightly bound around the linguistic and cultural identity that these non-official SA languages signal . </P>

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