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Northern Sotho

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Northern Sotho

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Also known as Northern Sotho language, nso, sepedi, pedi, Sepulana, Transvaal-Sotho

Bantu language

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Northern Sotho is a Bantu language spoken primarily in South Africa, where it is one of the country's 11 official languages. It matters because it is a primary language for millions of people in the northern regions of South Africa, making it an important part of the country's linguistic and cultural identity.

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Encyclopedic overview

A speaker of the Northern Sotho language Sepedi is one of South Africa’s twelve official languages and belongs to the Bantu language family, specifically the Sotho-Tswana group. The language is spoken mainly in Limpopo Province, and to a lesser extent in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, and North West.

Sepedi refers to the dialect spoken by the Pedi people. Northern Sotho is the umbrella term for a group of related dialects. The two terms are often used interchangeably, but technically Sepedi is one dialect of Northern Sotho.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Northern Sotho” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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