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Sotho | |
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Southern Sotho | |
Sesotho | |
Pronunciation | [sɪ̀sʊ́tʰʊ̀] |
Native to | |
Ethnicity | Basotho |
Native speakers | 5.6 million (2001–2011)[1] 7.9 million L2 speakers in South Africa (2002)[2] |
Dialects |
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Latin (Sesotho alphabet) Sotho Braille Ditema tsa Dinoko | |
Signed Sotho | |
Official status | |
Official language in | |
Regulated by | Pan South African Language Board |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | st |
ISO 639-2 | sot |
ISO 639-3 | sot |
Glottolog | sout2807 |
S.33 [3] | |
Linguasphere | 99-AUT-ee incl. varieties 99-AUT-eea to 99-AUT-eee |
Sotho | |
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Person | Mosotho |
People | Basotho |
Language | Sesotho |
Country | Lesotho |
Sesotho |
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Sotho (/sɛˈsuːtuː/)[a] Sesotho, also known as Southern Sotho or Sesotho sa Borwa is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho–Tswana ("S.30") group, spoken in Lesotho, and South Africa where it is an official language;
Like all Bantu languages, Sesotho is an agglutinative language that uses numerous affixes and derivational and inflexional rules to build complete words.
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