• 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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    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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  • 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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  • ⟨ ⟩, 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Iron Bafokeng Sesotho, Afrikaans Lesotho, South Africa Mutla, Koena, Phoka Hare, Crocodile, Dew North West, Free State Bafula Sesotho Lesotho, South...
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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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    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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  • 1955, South Africa – died 5 April 2021, South Africa) was a writer in the Sesotho language. An author of more than 40 books, Maphalla has received an honorary...
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    the regions around Clarens, Bethlehem, Ficksburg, Ladybrand and Wepener. Sesotho is the dominant home language in most of the province. Zulu is the major...
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  • the surrounding Sesotho and Xhosa languages, but retains a distinct core of lexicon and grammar not found in either Xhosa or Sesotho, and found only partly...
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    South African Sesotho orthography (pronounced: /ditʼɪːma/; Singular: Tema, Sesotho for "text" or "ploughed land") is a form of Sesotho mural art composed...
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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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    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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  • 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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    (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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  • Bloemfontein while traveling to Lesotho. "Malome Vector: A New Wave of Sesotho Rap". Red Bull. 16 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 May...
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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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  • In South Africa, manually coded language is used in education, as a bridge between South African Sign Language (SASL) and the eleven official oral languages...
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