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Sesotho

Also known as Southern Sotho, Sotho, Sotho language

Southern Bantu language

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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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native label: seSotho
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 6000000
Commons category: Sotho language
Wikimedia language code: st
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SOT
P10369: Liechtenstein
P11012: Alexandre Cécé Loua

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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.