<?xml version="1.0"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en">
	<id>https://rosettapanglossia.longnow.org/index.php?action=history&amp;feed=atom&amp;title=Venda_Language_%28ven%29</id>
	<title>Venda Language (ven) - Revision history</title>
	<link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://rosettapanglossia.longnow.org/index.php?action=history&amp;feed=atom&amp;title=Venda_Language_%28ven%29"/>
	<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://rosettapanglossia.longnow.org/index.php?title=Venda_Language_(ven)&amp;action=history"/>
	<updated>2026-10-16T22:36:39Z</updated>
	<subtitle>Revision history for this page on the wiki</subtitle>
	<generator>MediaWiki 1.39.1</generator>
	<entry>
		<id>https://rosettapanglossia.longnow.org/index.php?title=Venda_Language_(ven)&amp;diff=48669&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>Rosbot: New page:  &lt;table valign=top&gt;   &lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td valign=top align=left width=&quot;50%&quot;&gt;      &lt;table valign=top&gt;         &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Also Known As:&lt;/b&gt; Tshivenda,Chivenda,Cevenda,Venda   &lt;b&gt;Description:&lt;/b&gt;  ...</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://rosettapanglossia.longnow.org/index.php?title=Venda_Language_(ven)&amp;diff=48669&amp;oldid=prev"/>
		<updated>2009-08-13T20:55:46Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;New page:  &amp;lt;table valign=top&amp;gt;   &amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;     &amp;lt;td valign=top align=left width=&amp;quot;50%&amp;quot;&amp;gt;      &amp;lt;table valign=top&amp;gt;         &amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Also Known As:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; Tshivenda,Chivenda,Cevenda,Venda   &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Description:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;  ...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;table valign=top&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;td valign=top align=left width=&amp;quot;50%&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
     &amp;lt;table valign=top&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
        &amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Also Known As:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; Tshivenda,Chivenda,Cevenda,Venda&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Description:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Venda, also known as Tshivenḓa, or Luvenḓa, is a Bantu language and an official language of South Africa. The majority of Venda speakers live in South Africa, but there are also speakers in Zimbabwe. During the Apartheid era of South Africa, the bantustan of Venda was set up to cover the Venda speakers of South Africa.&lt;br /&gt;
Venda belongs to the Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo languages.&lt;br /&gt;
Venda is spoken by about 666,000 people in the northern part of South Africa&amp;#039;s Limpopo Province, as well as 84,000 people in Zimbabwe.&lt;br /&gt;
The Venda language uses the Latin alphabet with 5 additional accented letters. The letters C, J and Q are used only in quoting foreign words and names.&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=447650 ..... full article at Wikipedia]&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
        &amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;h2&amp;gt;Location of Venda Language Speakers&amp;lt;/h2&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
http://llmap.org/languages/ven/static_map.png?width=400&amp;amp;height=300&amp;amp;kilroywashere=.png&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
        &amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;h2&amp;gt;Rosetta Document Collection&amp;lt;/h2&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;table valign=top&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;Genesis Translation:&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_ven_gen-1 (download)]&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_ven_gen-1 (browse)] &amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/table&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
     &amp;lt;/table&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;td valign=top align=right&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
     &amp;lt;table valign=top&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
      &amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;table&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;h2&amp;gt;Overview&amp;lt;/h2&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Main Country: &amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/south_africa South Africa]&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Spoken In: &amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Regions: &amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/africa Africa] &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;ISO 639-3 Code: &amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;ven&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/table&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
      &amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;h2&amp;gt;Classification Taxonomy&amp;lt;/h2&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[All Languages]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;[[Niger-Congo Group]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;[[Atlantic-Congo Group]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;[[Volta-Congo Group]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;[[Benue-Congo Group]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;[[Bantoid Group]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;[[Southern Bantoid Group]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;[[Narrow Bantu Group]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;[[Central Narrow Bantu Group]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;[[S Group]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;[[Venda (S.20) Group]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;[[Venda Language]]&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
     &amp;lt;/table&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  &amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/table&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
__NOTOC__&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Rosbot</name></author>
	</entry>
</feed>