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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
- 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.