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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 ...
The Pedi / p ɛ d i / or Bapedi / b æ ˈ p ɛ d i / - also known as the Northern Sotho, [2] Basotho ba Lebowa, bakgatla ba dithebe, [3] Transvaal Sotho, [4] Marota, or Dikgoshi [5] - are a Sotho-Tswana ethnic group native to South Africa, Botswana, and Lesotho that speak Pedi or Sepedi, [6] which is one of the 12 official languages in South Africa. [7]
The Sotho-Tswana peoples are a meta-ethnicity of southern Africa and live predominantly in Botswana, South Africa and Lesotho. List of clans and kingdoms [ edit ]
The Batswana (Tswana: Batswana, singular Motswana) are a Bantu ethnic group native to Southern Africa.Ethnic Tswana made up approximately 85% of the population of Botswana in 2011.
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
Most Sotho-Tswana people can trace their roots back to the Barolong, first recorded in 1150. [5] In 1300, the Rolong were located in the southwestern Transvaal; [6] then, in 1400, they moved south and settled between the Molopo and Vaal Rivers.
Here the Swati people continued the process of expansion by conquering numerous small Sotho and Nguni-speaking tribes to build up a large composite state today called Eswatini. Sobhuza I's rule occurred during the Mfecane. Under Sobhuza's leadership, the Nguni and Sotho peoples as well as remnant San groups were integrated into the Swati nation.