Published August 20, 2026 | Version v1.1.0

Source code for map of multilingual South Africa

  • 1. Beyond Crowds, LLC
  • 2. ROR icon University of Pretoria
  • 3. ROR icon University of Helsinki

Description

Source code for the interactive map on the web page https://multilingualsouthafrica.com/map/, developed by Will Koeppen and Thera Marie Crane. 

The map is an interactive visualization of data that was compiled and published by Statistics South Africa titled South African Census Community Profiles 2011. The 2011 census surveyed more than 51 million people, asking them to identify which language was used most often by each person in their household, “whether or not they consider it their mother tongue.”

This interactive map uses vectorized tiles built from the community profile data using Tippecanoe. Svelte and MapLibre GL JS are used to serve the tiles, change display options, and display relevant information in mouse-overs. 

See https://multilingualsouthafrica.com/ for more details.

Files

sa-language-map-1.1.0.zip

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Additional details

Related works

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Other: https://multilingualsouthafrica.com/ (URL)

Funding

Research Council of Finland
Accommodating Linguistic Diversity in Conversation: Modal Expressions and Multilingualism in South Africa 353464

Dates

Available
2026

Software

Programming language
JavaScript , Svelte , Python
Development Status
Active