Northern Sotho | |
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Native to | South Africa |
Region | Gauteng, Limpopo, parts of Mpumalanga |
Ethnicity | Pedi
Lobedu Pulana Tlôkwa |
Native speakers | 4.7 million (2011 census)[1] 9.1 million L2 speakers (2002)[2] |
Early forms | Tswaniac
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Standard forms | Pedi |
Latin (Northern Sotho alphabet) Sotho Braille Ditema tsa Dinoko | |
Signed Northern Sotho | |
Official status | |
Official language in | ![]() |
Regulated by | Pan South African Language Board |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | nso |
ISO 639-3 | nso |
Glottolog | pedi1238 Pedi |
S.32,301–304 [3] | |
Linguasphere | 99-AUT-ed |
![]() Geographical distribution of Northern Sotho in South Africa: proportion of the population that speaks a form of Northern Sotho at home.
0–20%
20–40%
40–60%
60–80%
80–100% | |
![]() Geographical distribution of Northern Sotho in South Africa: density of Northern Sotho home-language speakers.
<1 /km²
1–3 /km²
3–10 /km²
10–30 /km²
30–100 /km²
100–300 /km²
300–1000 /km²
1000–3000 /km²
>3000 /km² | |
Pedi | |
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Person | Mopedi |
People | Bapedi |
Language | Sepedi |
Sesotho sa Leboa is a Sotho-Tswana language group spoken in the northeastern provinces of South Africa, most commonly in Mpumalanga, Gauteng and the Limpopo provinces.[4] It is also known by Pedi or Sepedi and holds the status of an official language in South Africa.[5][6]
An official language for the Lebowa homeland during apartheid, it is the first language of over 4.6 million (9.1%) people according to the South African National Census of 2011, making it the 5th most spoken language in South Africa.
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