Tswana in Botswana

Speakers

2,500,000

Type

Location

Tswana in Botswana

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Tswana in Botswana

Size

2,500,000

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
No

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Video

Digital
Yes

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Audio

Digital
Yes

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban

Size / Number of users

Number of users

2500000
Source
census
Year
2011

Users within total population

90.00000
More than 50% use the language

PROPORTION

90
Source
census, 2011

Users within the reference community

100 % use the language
Actual percentage
100
Source
census, 2011

Age distribution of users

1,500,000
52
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

census, 2011

Age distribution of users

1,200,000
41
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

census, 2011

Age distribution of users

200,000
7
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

census, 2011

Generational use

All generations

Educational attainment

60
40
10,000
No education
Source

statistics, 2016

50
50
100,000
Early childhood education
Source

statistics, 2016

50
50
1,200,000
Primary education
Source

statistics, 2016

56
44
900,000
Lower secondary education
Source

statistics, 2016

63
38
800,000
Higher secondary education
Source

statistics, 2016

56
44
180,000
Tertiary education
Source

statistics, 2016

Occupational qualifications

45
55
1,100,000
Elementary occupations
Source

census, 2001

90
10
50,000
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Source

census, 2001

50
50
600,000
Craft and related trades workers
Source

census, 2001

83
17
30,000
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Source

census, 2001

40
60
50,000
Services and sales workers
Source

census, 2001

50
50
4,000
Clerical support workers
Source

census, 2001

75
25
20,000
Technicians and associate professionals
Source

census, 2001

75
25
40,000
Professionals
Source

census, 2001

80
20
20,000
Managers
Source

census, 2001

Language competence

Language not used
Source

census, 2001

Understand little, speak/sign none
Source

census, 2001

Understand some, speak/sign little
Source

census, 2001

75
25
200,000
Understand well, speak/sign some
Source

census, 2001

67
33
300,000
Understand all, speak/sign well
Source

census, 2001

45
55
2,000,000
Understand all, speak/sign fluently
Source

census, 2001

Literacy of users

More than 50% of users with literacy in the language
Source

statistics, 2016

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local
Source
Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
exclusive
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Ethnoculture

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion