The Tshivenda language, also known as Venda, is a Bantu language spoken by the Venda people in South Africa and Zimbabwe. It is one of the 11 official languages of South Africa.

TshiVenda is the language predominantly spoken in the entire region and is also the language for
just over a million people in South Africa predominantly residing in this region. The language is also an instructional medium for some quarter of a million primary school children below the age of twelve, according to a 2005-snap survey statistics of the Vhembe district administration.

TshiVenda is used as the medium of instruction from Grades 1 to 3, while English is the official medium of instruction from Grades 4 to 12.