• 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 indigenous to Southern Africa. They primarily inhabit...
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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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  • 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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    million speakers (if Manyika and Ndau are included), while Sotho-Tswana languages (Sotho, Tswana and Pedi) have more than 15 million speakers (across...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 2010 FIFA World Cup (category Articles containing Northern Sotho-language text)
    South Africa) and the term kumi, which means "ten" in various African languages. The mascot's colours reflected those of the host nation's playing strip...
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  • 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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    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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  • Tsotsi (category Sotho-language films)
    International Feature Film and was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, becoming the first South African film and first African film not...
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  • Lesotho national under-20 football team (category Articles containing Sotho-language text)
    The Lesotho national under-20 football team, nicknamed the Crocodiles, represents Lesotho in international youth football competitions. Its primary role...
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    Voiceless dental and alveolar lateral fricatives (category Articles containing Sotho-language text)
    lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless...
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