Siswati is a Bantu language of the Nguni group, closely related to Zulu and Xhosa. It is spoken by around two and a half million people, split between Eswatini, where it is the national language alongside English, and neighbouring South Africa, where most speakers live in Mpumalanga province and where it counts among the country's official languages. Written in the Latin alphabet, Siswati shares the Nguni family's best-known feature, click consonants, though it uses fewer of them than Zulu or Xhosa. Speakers of Siswati and Zulu can generally understand one another, and in South Africa the two communities live side by side. In Eswatini the language carries considerable weight in national life, used in schools, on radio and television, and in royal and ceremonial contexts throughout the year.
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