The Sotho language group is a group of three closely related Bantu languages spoken in Southern Africa including Setswana, Sesotho, and Sesotho sa Leboa. Map showing the approximate distribution of Bantu (dull yellow) vs. ... Tswana, also known as Setswana, is a Bantu language. ... Sesotho is a language spoken in southern Africa. ... Northern Sotho, Sepedi, or Sesotho sa Leboa, is one of the official languages of South Africa, and is spoken by 4,208,980 people (2001 Census Data), mostly in the provinces of Gauteng, Limpopo Province and Mpumalanga. ...
These languages may be related to Lozi (or Serotse, as Basotho call it) spoken in Zambia. Lozi, also known as Silozi and Rozi, is a Bantu language (of the Niger-Congo language family) that is spoken by the Lozi people primarily in southwestern Zambia and also, to a lesser extent, in surrounding countries. ...
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Sotho - English Dictionary. Be warned, this is an utterly confused mix of Sepedi and Sesotho written in Sepedi orthorgraphy. Any information you get from this site should be taken with a hefty dose of salt.
The Benue-Congo group of languages constitutes the largest branch of the Niger_Congolanguage family, both in terms of sheer number of languages, of which 938 are known (not counting mere dialects), and in terms of speakers, numbering perhaps 550 million.
Xhosa is one of the official languages of South Africa.
The language represents the most southwestern branch of the Nguni subfamily of the Bantulanguages.
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