Gauteng
Gauteng' (Template:IPA-en[1] or Template:IPA-en; Template:IPA-st) is ane o the nine provinces o Sooth Africae. It wis formed frae pairt o the auld Transvaal Province efter Sooth Africae's first aw-race elections on 27 Aprile 1994. It wis initially named Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging (or PWV) an wis renamed 'Gauteng' in December 1994.
Situatit in the hert o the Highveld, Gauteng is the smawest province in Sooth Africae, wi anerlie 1.4% o the land aurie,[2] but it is heichlie urbanised, containin the ceeties o Johannesburg an Pretoria. Template:As of, it had a population of nearly 10.5 million, makin it the maist populous province in Sooth Africae.[3]
[edit] Etymology
The name Gauteng comes frae the Sesotho wird meanin "Place o Gowd", the historical Sesotho name for Johannesburg an surroondin auries. This referred tae the thrivin gowd industry in the province follaein the 1886 discovery o gowd in Johannesburg.[2] The Sesotho wird is a locative derived frae the Afrikaans goud (gowd) plus the locative suffix "-ng." When properly pronoonced, the first letter o the name Gauteng is a voiceless velar fricative, pronoonced similarly tae the "ch" in the German achtung or Scots loch. This pronunciation is natural in baith the Sesotho an Afrikaans leids.
[edit] References
- ↑ Merriam-Webster Online.[1] They transcribe it /ˈɡaʊtɛŋ/, with the stress on the first syllable, but the audio file is /ɡaʊˈtɛŋ/, with the stress on the second; the latter more closely matches the Sotho.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 About Gauteng. Gauteng Provincial Government. Retrieved on 25 October 2008. .
- ↑ Community Survey 2007: Basic results (PDF). Statistics South Africa. Retrieved on 23 September 2009. .
