Arewacin Sotho

Arewacin Sotho
Sepedi — Sesotho sa Leboa
'Yan asalin magana	4,100,000
Dangin harshen	Harsunan Nijar-Congo Harsunan Atlantic-Congo Harsunan Volta-Congo Harsunan Benue-Congo Harsunan Bantoid Southern Bantoid (en) Bantu (en) East Bantu (en) Southern Bantu (en) Harsunan Sotho-Tswana Arewacin Sotho
Baƙaƙen rubutu	Baƙaƙen boko
Lamban rijistar harshe
ISO 639-2	nso
ISO 639-3	nso
Glottolog	da nort3233 nort2794 da nort3233[1]

Sepedi, wanda a da ake kira Sesotho sa Lebowa a matsayin yare na hukuma ga mahaifar Lebowa a lokacin mulkin wariyar launin fata, rukuni ne na yaren Sotho-Tswana da ake magana a cikin lardunan arewa maso gabashin Afirka ta Kudu . Ana kiransa da yawa a cikin daidaitaccen tsari a matsayin Pedi ko Sepedi kuma yana riƙe da matsayin harshen hukuma a Afirka ta Kudu.

Bisa ga ƙidayar jama'a ta Afirka ta Kudu a shekarar 2011, shi ne yaren farko na mutane sama da miliyan 4.6 (9.1%), wanda ya sa ya zama yare na 5 mafi yawan magana a Afirka ta Kudu. Yaren Sepedi yawanci ana magana da shi a cikin lardunan Mpumalanga, Gauteng da Limpopo .

1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). da nort3233 "Arewacin Sotho" Check |chapterurl= value (help). Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.