• Sotho (/ˈsuːtuː/), also known as Sesotho (/sɪˈsuːtuː, sə-/), Southern Sotho, or Sesotho sa Borwa is a Southern Bantu language spoken in Lesotho as its...
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  • The Sotho-Tswana languages are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken in Southern Africa. The Sotho-Tswana group corresponds to the S.30 label...
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    Sotho, is one of South Africa’s twelve official languages and belongs to the Bantu language family, specifically the Sotho-Tswana group. The language...
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    Bantu language indigenous to Southern Africa and spoken by about 8.2 million people. It is closely related to the Northern Sotho and Southern Sotho languages...
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    The Sotho (/ˈsuːtuː/), also known as the Basotho (/bæˈsuːtuː/), are a Sotho-Tswana ethnic group who have long inhabited Southern Africa. They primarily...
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  • Northern Sotho lessons. Pretoria Taal (or Sepitori) is mutually intelligible with SeTswana and Northern Sotho. It is a very dynamic and fluid language that...
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    thirty-five languages are spoken in South Africa, twelve of which are official languages of South Africa: Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, South African Sign Language, Swazi...
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  • southern Botswana Sotho language (Sesotho or Southern Sotho), a Bantu language spoken in southern Africa, an official language of both South Africa and...
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  • l’Afrique centrale. Mabille, A., Dieterlen, H., and Paroz, R. A. 1950. Southern Sotho-English Dictionary. Morija Sesuto Book Depot. Motingoe, M. M., 2008. Letshwao...
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  • and those of the other Sotho–Tswana languages are radically different from those of "older" or more "stereotypical" Bantu languages. Modern Sesotho in particular...
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    South Africa (category Articles containing Northern Sotho-language text)
    official languages: Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, English, Pedi, Tswana, Southern Sotho, Tsonga, Swazi, Venda, and Southern Ndebele (in order of first language speakers)...
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  • An IETF BCP 47 language tag is a standardized code that is used to identify human languages on the Internet. The tag structure has been standardized by...
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  • Nhlangwini Sotho–Tswana (S30 + K20): Tswana ("West Sotho") Birwa Tswapong Kgalagadi Sotho Northern Sotho (Sepedi) Southern Sotho (Sesotho) East Sotho (Pulana...
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  • Lozi, also known as Silozi and Rozi, is a Bantu language of the Niger–Congo language family within the Sotho–Tswana branch of Zone S (S.30), that is spoken...
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    Africa. They are a large and diverse group of people who speak Sotho-Tswana languages. The group is predominantly found in Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa...
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  • Tlôkwa people (category Articles containing Northern Sotho-language text)
    peoples. These different groups are often classified for convenience as 'Sotho-Tswana'. This is because, from an early stage of their history, they shared...
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  • Savage Beauty (TV series) (category Sotho-language television shows)
    Music by Kyle Shepherd Country of origin South Africa Original languages English Sotho No. of seasons 2 No. of episodes 12 Production Executive producers...
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    Ndebele, while maintaining its Nguni roots, has been influenced by the Sotho languages. Many consonant sounds may result in depressed (or breathy) allophones...
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    Free State (province) (category Articles containing Sotho-language text)
    The Free State (Afrikaans: Vrystaat [ˈfrəistɑːt]; Sotho: Freistata; Xhosa: iFreyistata; Tswana: Foreistata; Zulu: iFuleyisitata), formerly known as the...
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  • also known as the Northern Sotho, Basotho ba Lebowa, bakgatla ba dithebe, Transvaal Sotho, Marota, or Dikgoshi - are a Sotho-Tswana ethnic group native...
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    President of South Africa (category Articles containing Northern Sotho-language text)
    Mopresidente wa Afrika Borwa (Northern Sotho) Moporesitente wa Aforika Borwa (Tswana) Moporesitente wa Aforika Borwa (Sotho) Puresidente wa Afrika-Dzonga (Tsonga)...
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    Eastern Cape (category Articles containing Northern Sotho-language text)
    of the population reported their first language as Xhosa, 9.6% as Afrikaans, 4.8% as English, and 2.4% as Sotho. The Eastern Cape is the only province...
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  • sep- Impolite The Sotho–Tswana languages lack the high toned pre-prefix/augment that appears in the nouns of many other languages. Generally, the augments...
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    Lesotho national football team (category Articles containing Sotho-language text)
    The Lesotho national football team, also known as LNFT, represents Lesotho in men's international association football and is governed by the Lesotho Football...
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    Gonimbrasia belina (category Articles containing Northern Sotho-language text)
    include: Botswana Kalanga: mashonja Tswana: phane South Africa Northern Sotho: mašotša (colloq) Venda: mashonzha Tsonga: matamani or masonja Southern...
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    Dušan Vlahović (category CS1 Southern Sotho-language sources (st))
    February 2016. "Dečak je postao muškarac! (VIDEO)". Mozzart Sport (in Southern Sotho). 2 April 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2016. "Spartak – Partizan 0:3 (0:1)"....
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    Sotho–Tswana languages (such as the Southern Sotho, Tswana, Northern Sotho) and whose speakers historically lived on the interior plateau. The two language groups...
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  • List of South African slang words (category Languages of South Africa)
    The following lists slang borrowings from the Nguni Bantu languages (which include Zulu Sotho and Tswana and Xhosa). They typically occur in use in the...
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    regulated by the Constitution. The monarch is styled as Marena; in Sotho language, Marena is the plural of the common noun Kings, where Morena is the...
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  • Department of Education (South Africa) (category Articles containing Northern Sotho-language text)
    Wezemfundo (Zulu) Litiko Letemfundvo (Swazi) Kgoro ya Thuto (Northern Sotho) Lefapha la Thuto (Sotho) Lefapha la Thuto (Tswana) Ndzawulo ya Dyondzo (Tsonga) Muhasho...
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