14-536: Thulamela Municipality ( Venda : Masipalawapo wa Thulamela ; Tsonga : Masipala wa Thulamela ) is a local municipality within the Vhembe District Municipality , in the Limpopo province of South Africa . Its municipal boundaries were greatly altered after the 2016 municipal elections when much of the area that formerly belonged to the municipality, including the town of Malamulele ,
28-412: A specified tone, HIGH , with unmarked syllables having a low tone. Phonetic falling tone occurs only in sequences of more than one vowel or on the penultimate syllable if the vowel is long. Tone patterns exist independently of the consonants and vowels of a word and so they are word tones . Venda tone also follows Meeussen's rule : when a word beginning with a high tone is preceded by that high tone,
42-744: Is mainly spoken by the Venda people (or Vhavenḓa) in the northern part of South Africa's Limpopo province , as well as by some Lemba people in South Africa . The Tshivenda language is related to the Kalanga language which is spoken in Southern Africa . During the apartheid era of South Africa, the Bantustan of Venda was set up to cover the Venda speakers of South Africa . According to
56-482: The "plain" stops p, ṱ, t, and k are ejective . There are five vowel sounds and two high vowels in Tshivenḓa. A labiodental nasal /ɱ/ sound appears in prenasalised consonant sounds. Labiovelar sounds occur as alternatives to labiopalatal sounds and may also be pronounced /pkʰ pkʼ bɡ mŋ/ . Fortition of /ɸ β s ʃ x h l̪ l r w/ occurs after nasal prefixes, likely to [pʰ? b tsʰ tʃʰ kʰ? pʰ d̪ d d b] . Venda has
70-504: The 2011 census , Venda speakers are concentrated in the following areas: Makhado Local Municipality , with 350,000 people; Thulamela Local Municipality , with 370,000 people; Musina Local Municipality , with 35,000 people; and Mutale Local Municipality , with 89,000 people. The total number of speakers in Vhembe district currently stands at 844,000. In Gauteng province , there are 275,000 Venda speakers. Fewer than 10,000 are spread across
84-634: The South of the country but also spread to other towns and cities. There is also a significant number of them in neighbouring South Africa where they are migrant workers . The Venda language uses the Latin alphabet with five additional accented letters. There are four dental consonants with a circumflex accent below the letter ( ḓ, ḽ, ṋ, ṱ ) and an overdot for velar ṅ . Five vowel letters are used to write seven vowels. The letters C, J and Q are used only for foreign words and names. The extra letters have
98-1144: The death of his father in 1995. Foreign Words, published by Autumn Hill Books in 2006, is Alexakis’ first work to appear in English. It was published in the US with help from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as the French ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States. Foreign Words tells the story of Nicolaides, a Greek writer living in Paris, whose father has recently died. His latest novel has not done well in France, and he has not been writing anything new. He decides he wants to learn
112-547: The following Unicode names: The sintu writing system Isibheqe Sohlamvu/ Ditema tsa Dinoko , known technically in Venda as Luṱhofunḓeraru lwa Mibvumo , is also used for the Venda language. Venda distinguishes dental ṱ, ṱh, ḓ, ṋ, ḽ from alveolar t, th, d, n, l as well as (like in Ewe ) labiodental f, v from bilabial fh, vh (the last two are slightly rounded ). There are no clicks. As in other South African languages like Zulu , ph, ṱh, th, kh are aspirated and
126-437: The initial high tone is lost. (That is, there cannot be two adjacent marked high tones in a word, but high tone spreads allophonically to a following non-tonic ("low"-tone) syllable.) There are only a few tone patterns in Venda words (no tone, a single high tone on some syllable, two non-adjacent high tones), which behave as follows: Foreign Words Foreign Words is a novel by Greek author Vassilis Alexakis that tells
140-409: The prize for best Greek novel of the year. The English translation Foreign Words was done by Alyson Waters and was published by Autumn Hill Books in 2006. Vassilis Alexakis, like his protagonist Nicolaides, is a Greek writer who relocated to France, writing and translating between his native and adopted languages. The inspiration for Foreign Words comes from his own experience studying Sango after
154-535: The remaining forty are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of 71 seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election. Venda language Venḓa or Tshivenḓa is a Bantu language and an official language of South Africa and Zimbabwe . It
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#1732772744582168-606: The rest of the country—for a total number of Venda speakers in South Africa at 1.2 million people or just 2.2% of South Africa's population, making Venda speakers the second smallest minority language in South Africa, after the Ndebele language , which number 1.1 million speakers. The population statistics of the Venda people in Zimbabwe are not clear but may currently stand at a million. The people are concentrated in
182-637: The story of middle-aged writer Nicolaides and his decision to learn the African language Sango following the death of his father. The novel was originally published in 2002 in France as Les mots étrangers , where it was short-listed for the Renaudot Prize and the Interallié Prize. It was then translated by the author and was published in 2004 as Oi xenes lexeis in Greece, where it won
196-646: Was incorporated into the newly formed Collins Chabane Local Municipality . It is named after the Thulamela ruins located near the Pafuri Gate of the Kruger National Park . The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places : The municipal council consists of eighty-one members elected by mixed-member proportional representation . Forty-one councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in forty-one wards , while
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