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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Pedi people (redirect from Northern Sotho people)
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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Sesotho orthography (redirect from Sotho alphabet)
The orthography of the Sotho language is fairly recent and is based on the Latin script, but, like most languages written using the Latin alphabet, it...
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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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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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writing of the Abaza and the Kabardian languages in the 1920s and was proposed for the writing of the Sotho-Tswana language in 1929. A. N. Tucker used h with...
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artists who expressed their culture & language in HipHop music, as in most of his songs he sang in the Sotho language. Malome relocated to South Africa and...
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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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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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Minister of Tourism (South Africa) (category Articles containing Northern Sotho-language text)
weZohwebo (Zulu) Indvuna Letivakashi (Swazi) Tona ya Boeti (Northern Sotho) Letona la Bohahlaudi (Sotho) Tona la Bojanala (Tswana) Holobye ya Vupfhumba (Tsonga) Minisiṱa...
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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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Lesotho Defence Force (category Articles containing Sotho-language text)
The Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) is the military of the Southern African Kingdom of Lesotho, which consists of about 2,000 personnel and is tasked with...
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the Sotho languages. Ndebele at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Webb, Vic. 2002. "Language in South Africa: the role of language in...
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Provinces of South Africa (category Articles containing Sotho-language text)
966 km2 (65,238 sq mi) 7,230,204 42.8/km2 (111/sq mi) Free State Freistata (Sotho) Bloemfontein 129,825 km2 (50,126 sq mi) 2,964,412 22.8/km2 (59/sq mi) Gauteng...
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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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National Assembly of Zimbabwe (category Articles containing Sotho-language text)
The National Assembly of Zimbabwe, previously the House of Assembly until 2013, is the lower house of the Parliament of Zimbabwe. It was established upon...
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