African
/Black

Coloured

Indian
/Asian

White

Unspecified
/other

Total

Afrikaans

217,606

2,931,489

15,135

2,558,956

88,361

5,811,547

English

113,132

584,101

974,654

1,711,603

73,977

3,457,467

IsiNdebele

578,067

2,507

107

3,427

2,851

586,961

IsiXhosa

7,148,721

12,303

688

2,832

31,574

7,196,118

IsiZulu

9,132,569

8,502

1,787

3,448

53,838

9,200,144

Sepedi

3,674,320

2,173

319

1,316

17,718

3,695,846

Sesotho

3,083,047

6,406

267

1,737

12,740

3,104,197

SiSwati

1,006,804

1,553

201

316

4,320

1,013,193

Setswana

3,272,720

12,935

191

1,809

14,118

3,301,774

Tshivenda

871,130

302

139

177

4,661

876,409

Xitsonga

1,745,216

883

306

736

8,965

1,756,105

Other

89,494

7,094

38,605

87,621

5,462

228,275

Unspecified

194,804

30,199

13,196

60,721

56,619

355,538

Total

31,127,631

3,600,446

1,045,596

4,434,697

375,204

40,583,573