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Ethnic group Sotho people Basotho King Moshoeshoe I, founder of the Southern Basotho Nation of Lesotho, with his Ministers. Total population c. 7,254,315 (2023 est.) Regions with significant populations South Africa 5,103,205 Lesotho 2,130,110 Botswana 11,000 Eswatini 6,000 Namibia 4,000 Languages Sesotho IsiXhosa, IsiZulu, English, Afrikaans Religion Christianity, Modimo Related ethnic groups ...
The Sotho-Tswana ethnic group derives its name from the people who belong to the various Sotho and Tswana clans that live in southern Africa. Historically, all members of the group were referred to as Sothos; the name is now exclusively applied to speakers of Southern Sotho who live mainly in Lesotho and the Free State province in South Africa, while Northern Sotho is reserved for Sotho ...
Northern Sotho is one of the Sotho languages of the Bantu family. Although Northern Sotho shares the name Sotho with Southern Sotho, the two groups also have a great deal in common with their sister language Setswana. [citation needed] [12] Northern Sotho is also closely related to Setswana, sheKgalagari and siLozi. It is a standardized variety ...
Sotho (/ s ɛ ˈ s uː t uː /) [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.
Sesotho, Setswana, Sesotho sa Leboa Noko, Nkoe, Thakadu Wild Cat Bakgatla Batloung Setswana, Sesotho Tlou Elephant Batsatsing Letsatsi Sun Batšoeneng Sesotho, Setswana, Sesotho sa Leboa Tšoene Baboon Bahurutshe Bakopa Sesotho ba Leboa South Africa Limpopo Kwena Crocodile BaKwena Bakutswe Sesotho ba Leboa/Pulana South Africa Limpopo/Mpumalanga
Pedi music (mmino wa setso: traditional music, lit. music of origin) has a six-note scale. The same applies to variants of Mmino wa Setšo as practiced by Basotho ba Leboa (Northern Sotho) tribes in the Capricorn, Blouberg, Waterberg districts, as well as BaVhenda in the Vhembe district. Mmino wa Setšo (indigenous African music) can also be ...
Sotho may refer to: Sotho people (or Basotho ), an African ethnic group principally resident in South Africa, Lesotho and southern Botswana Sotho language ( Sesotho or Southern Sotho ), a Bantu language spoken in southern Africa, an official language of both South Africa and Lesotho
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 in Guthrie's 1967–71 classification [1] of languages in the Bantu family. The various dialects of Tswana, Southern Sotho and Northern Sotho are highly mutually