Sotho language (redirect from Sesotho)
Sotho (/sɛˈsuːtuː/) Sesotho, also known as Southern Sotho or Sesotho sa Borwa is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho–Tswana ("S.30") group, spoken in...
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vital role in delineating Sesotho orthography and printing Sesotho language materials between 1837 and 1855. The first Sesotho translation of the Bible...
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writing of the approximants /j/ and /w/ in the modern Lesotho variant. Sesotho in South Africa uses the following alphabet: One issue which complicates...
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Sesotho poetry is a form of artistic expression using the written and spoken word practiced by the Basotho people in Southern Africa. Written poetry in...
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Northern Sotho (redirect from Sesotho sa Leboa)
Sesotho sa Leboa is a Sotho-Tswana language group spoken in the northeastern provinces of South Africa, most commonly in Mpumalanga, Gauteng and the Limpopo...
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presents a brief overview of the grammar of the Sesotho and provides links to more detailed articles. The Sesotho language may be described in several ways...
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Sotho calendar (redirect from Sesotho calendar)
The Sesotho language has traditional names for the months of the familiar Gregorian calendar. The names reflect a deep connection that the Basotho people...
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Sotho phonology (redirect from Sesotho phonology)
⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The phonology of Sesotho and those of the other Sotho–Tswana languages are radically different from...
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Sesotho Media and Development (SMD) is a non-governmental organization which focuses on promoting film and education within Lesotho. In 2011, SMD started...
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Sotho verbs (redirect from Sesotho verbs)
Sesotho verbs are words in the language that signify the action or state of a substantive, and are brought into agreement with it using the subjectival...
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South African braille (redirect from Sesotho Braille)
Nine other languages have been written in braille: Afrikaans, Ndebele, Sesotho, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, and Zulu. All print alphabets...
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Sesotho – the language of the Basotho ethnic group of South Africa and Lesotho – has a complex system of kinship terms which may be classified to fall...
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Thomas Mofolo (redirect from Thomas Mofolo Prize for Outstanding Sesotho Fiction)
consists of three books composed between 1905 and 1910, were first written in Sesotho, and then widely translated. He is best known for his third book, Chaka...
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Sotho parts of speech (redirect from Sesotho parts of speech)
The Sesotho parts of speech convey the most basic meanings and functions of the words in the language, which may be modified in largely predictable ways...
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Sotho nouns (redirect from Sesotho nouns)
Sesotho nouns signify concrete or abstract concepts in the language, but are distinct from the Sesotho pronouns. Bantu languages are often said to have...
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Sotho concords (redirect from Sesotho concords)
Just as the Sesotho sentence centres on the Sesotho noun, the noun is made to "concòrd" ("agree") with the verbs, pronouns, and qualificatives describing...
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themselves. Sesotho refers to Southern Sotho, and isiNdebele refers to Southern Ndebele. The Interim Constitution of 1993 referred to Sesotho sa Leboa,...
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Tshipi Iron Bafokeng Sesotho, Setswana Lesotho, South Africa Mutla, Koena, Phoka Hare, Crocodile, Dew North West, Free State Bafula Sesotho Lesotho, South Africa...
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Their native language, Sesotho, is the official language along with English. The name Lesotho translates to "land of the Sesotho speakers". Lesotho was...
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Phuthi, Sesotho, Xhosa, Zulu and English, — all, except for English, belong to the Niger–Congo language family. Sesotho (or Southern Sesotho), a Southern...
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Johannesburg Official languages 12 languages Afrikaans English Ndebele Sepedi Sesotho Setswana South African Sign Language Swazi Tshivenda Xhosa Xitsonga Zulu...
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isiXhosa 16.3%, Afrikaans 10.6%, English 8.7%, Sepedi 10.0%, Setswana 8.3%, Sesotho 7.8%, Xitsonga 4.7%, siSwati 2.8%, Tshivenda 2.5%, isiNdebele 1.7% and...
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women from the clan deliver their crops to their chief. Xhosa calendar Sesotho calendar Shona calendar Akan calendar Igbo calendar Yoruba calendar "Zulu...
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Sotho deficient verbs (redirect from Sesotho deficient verbs)
In the Sotho language, the deficient verbs are a special subset of Sesotho verbs that require a subordinate or complementary verb to complete their action...
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National Broadcasting Services, the channel broadcasts in English and Sesotho languages. In the early 1970s, Lesotho only had television in two hotels...
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University of Johannesburg Prize (section Prizes for Creative Writing in Northern Sotho (Sesotho sa Leboa))
Retrieved 2021-11-14. "2023 UJ Creative writing prize winners in isiZulu and Sesotho sa Leboa revealed". University of Johannesburg. 2023-09-05. Retrieved 2024-09-05...
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It is located in a section of the Drakensberg mountains (Maloti in the Sesotho language). It borders the province of KwaZulu-Natal to the south east and...
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(first stanza, first two lines), Zulu (first stanza, last two lines), Sesotho (second stanza), Afrikaans (third stanza), and English (final stanza)....
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Eastern Cape, Lesotho, and KwaZulu-Natal most Amahlubi speak IsiXhosa, Sesotho, and a handful speaks isiZulu, the language is near extinction many AmaHlubi...
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Sotho tonology (redirect from Sesotho tonology)
other Niger–Congo languages, Sesotho is a tonal language, spoken with two basic tones, high (H) and low (L). The Sesotho grammatical tone system (unlike...
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