Country Info

Namibia Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 2,206,484 people (89% of Namibia) that can read or write at least one language.

8 Writing Systems used in Namibia

Afrikaans (Latin)

af-latn
language code
1,863,585
people

Kuanyama (Latin)

kj-latn
language code
869,673
people

Ndonga (Latin)

ng-latn
language code
521,803
people

Nama (Latin)

naq-latn
language code
273,325
people

Herero (Latin)

hz-latn
language code
226,114
people

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
173,934
people

German (Latin)

de-latn
language code
22,363
people

Tswana (Latin)

tn-latn
language code
13,914
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR