🇧🇼 Country

Botswana

Botswana is home to 35 languages, spoken across Southern Africa. Explore them on the map or in the full list below.

Capital Gaborone

Nationality Motswana(singular)/Batswana(plural)

Currency Botswana Pula (BWP)

Languages 35

Independence Sep 30, 1966

31 active 4 endangered 0 extinct

Where the languages are spoken

Each bubble marks where a language is centred in Botswana; its size reflects how many people speak it there. Click a bubble for the source.

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All languages in Botswana

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