Back Suid-Sotho AF सोथो भाषा ANP اللغة السوتية Arabic Sesotho AST Soto dili AZ سوتو دیلی AZB Сота (мова) BE Сото (език) Bulgarian Sothoeg BR Sesotho Catalan
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| Sotho | |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|
| Person | Mosotho |
| People | Basotho |
| Language | Sesotho |
| Country | Lesotho |
| Sesotho |
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Sesotho (/sɛˈsuːtuː/)[a] 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.
- ^ Sotho at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Webb, Vic. 2002. "Language in South Africa: the role of language in national transformation, reconstruction and development." Impact: Studies in language and society, 14:78
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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