Swazi people

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Swazi
Swazi people dancing in a cultural village show.
Total population
3,500,000
Regions with significant populations
 Swaziland 1,185,000
 South Africa
 Mozambique
Languages

siSwati, English, Afrikaans, Portuguese

Religion

Christianity

Related ethnic groups

Nguni

The Swazi are an Nguni-speaking people in southeastern Africa, chiefly in Swaziland and South Africa and some in Mozambique. Besides their language, Siswati, they speak Afrikaans in South Africa, English in South Africa and Swaziland, and Portuguese in Mozambique and South Africa as second languages. More Swazi live in South Africa than in Swaziland. The Swazi are religiously diverse and tolerant.[1]

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