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.. Like all Bantu languages, Sesotho is an agglutinative language that uses numerous affixes and derivational …

索托语（索托语： Sesotho ），又译“苏陀语”，是南非11种官方语言之一，还是莱索托的国语，属于班图语支。 它是一种黏着语，用许多的词缀、派生词以及屈折变化来构成句子。 这种语言有39个辅音，9个元音。

Sesotho refers to Southern Sotho, and isiNdebele refers to Southern Ndebele. The Interim Constitution of 1993 referred to Sesotho sa Leboa, while the 1996 Constitution used "Sepedi" for the title of the Northern Sotho language. [12] The constitution mentions "sign language" in the generic sense rather than South African Sign Language specifically.

Southern Sotho (Sesotho in Southern Sotho) is an African language mainly spoken by people living in Lesotho and the Free State Province of South Africa.. Southern Sotho is one of the two official languages of Lesotho and one of the eleven official languages of South Africa. It is spoken by almost 6,024,000 people, or 7% of South Africans at home (2011 census).

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 intelligible. On more than one occasion, proposals have been put forward to ...

The Sotho / ˈ s uː t uː / language, or Sesotho / s ɛ ˈ s uː t uː / (also known as Southern Sotho or Southern Sesotho), is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho-Tswana (S.30) group, spoken primarily in South Africa, where it is one of the 11 official languages, in Zimbabwe where it is one of 16 official languages and in Lesotho, where it ...

Southern Sotho is also known as Sotho, Sesotho or Southern Sesotho. The native name of the language is seSotho [sɪ̀sʊ́tʰʊ̀], which means "language of the Sotho people", who call themselves Basotho. The first written form of Southern Sotho was devised by Thomas Arbousset, Eugene Casalis and Constant Gosselin, French missionaries of the ...

The language of the Basotho is referred to as Sesotho, [24] less commonly known as Sesotho sa borwa. [25] Some texts may refer to Sesotho as "Southern Sotho" to differentiate it from Northern Sotho, also called Sepedi. Sesotho is the first language of 1.5 million people in Lesotho, or 85% of the population. [19]

Sotho, linguistic and cultural group of peoples occupying the high grasslands of southern Africa.The main groups are customarily classified as the Transvaal, or northern, Sotho (Pedi, Lovedu, and others); the western Sotho, or Tswana (q.v.); and the southern Sotho (often called Basuto) of Lesotho and adjoining areas.Traditionally, most Sotho groups relied both on cultivation and on animal ...

Overview. Sesotho (Southern Sotho) is one of the official languages of South Africa, and is the primary official language of Lesotho, where it is widely spoken. In South Africa, there are 3,555,186 (7.93 %) first language speakers [2001 census data]. Sesotho is most closely related to two other languages in the Sotho language group, Setswana and Sesotho sa …