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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.
Many Sesotho nouns (and other parts of speech) stem from contact with speakers of Indo-European languages, primarily French missionaries, Orange Free State Afrikaners, and, in modern times, English people. The very alien phonetics and phonologies of these languages mean that words are to be imported rather irregularly with varying phonetic ...
people ba•lelapa of•family la•hae of•his ba•a•mo•ahlola they•judge•him Batho ba•lelapa la•hae ba•a•mo•ahlola people of•family of•his they•judge•him 'His family members judge him' Certain observations about the Sesotho word (and those of many other Bantu languages in general) may be made: Each word has one part of speech, which can usually be determined from ...
Sesotho sa Leboa is a Sotho-Tswana language group spoken in the northeastern provinces of South Africa, most commonly in the Mpumalanga, Gauteng and Limpopo provinces. [4] It is also known by Pedi or Sepedi and holds the status of an official language in South Africa .
Sesotho (or Southern Sesotho), a Southern Bantu language, is the national language of Lesotho, [2] [3] [note 1] and is spoken by most Basotho. [note 2] It was recognized as the national language by the National and Official Languages Bill, ratified by the National Assembly of Lesotho on 12 September 1966, which also established Sesotho and English as the country's two official languages.
Ditema tsa Dinoko (Sesotho for "Ditema syllabary"), also known as ditema tsa Sesotho, is a constructed writing system (specifically, a featural syllabary) for the siNtu or Southern Bantu languages (such as Sesotho, Setswana, IsiZulu, IsiXhosa, SiSwati, SiPhuthi, Xitsonga, EMakhuwa, ChiNgoni, SiLozi, ChiShona and Tshivenḓa).
Southern Sotho or Sotho (SeSotho): Phuthi, Taung Northern Sotho, which appears largely to be a taxonomic holding category for what is Sotho-Tswana but neither identifiably Southern Sotho nor Tswana, [ 3 ] subsumes highly varied dialects including Pedi ( Sepedi ), Tswapo ( Setswapo ), Lovedu ( Khilobedu ), Pai and Pulana.
Like all other Bantu languages, Sesotho is an agglutinative language spoken conjunctively; however, like many Bantu languages it is written disjunctively. The difference lies in the characteristically European word division used for writing the language, in contrast with some Bantu languages such as the South African Nguni languages .