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Sesotho is a Southern Bantu language spoken primarily in Lesotho and South Africa. It matters because it is the native language of millions of people and serves as an important part of their cultural and social identity in the region.
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- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Sotho–Tswana
- Country
- Lesotho
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- native label
- seSotho
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 6000000
- Commons category
- Sotho language
- topic's main category
- Category:Sotho language
- Wikimedia language code
- st
- writing system
- Latin script
- indigenous to
- Mpumalanga
- language regulatory body
- Pan South African Language Board
- category for films in this language
- Category:Sotho-language films
- topic has template
- Q36491203
- P10369
- Liechtenstein
- P11012
- Alexandre Cécé Loua
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Encyclopedic overview
Sotho (/ˈsuːtuː/), also known as Sesotho (/sɪˈsuːtuː, sə-/), Southern Sotho, or Sesotho sa Borwa, is a Southern Bantu language spoken in Lesotho, as its national language, and South Africa, where it is an official language.
Like all Bantu languages, Sesotho is an agglutinative language, using numerous affixes and derivational and inflexional rules to build complete words.
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