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| Sepedi | |
|---|---|
| Native to | South Africa |
| Region | Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga |
Native speakers | 4.7 million (2011 census)[1] 9.1 million L2 speakers (2002)[2] |
| Dialects | |
| Latin (Sotho alphabet) Sotho Braille | |
| Signed Pedi | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | South Africa |
| Regulated by | Pan South African Language Board |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | nso |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:nso – Pedi etc.brl – Birwatwo – Tswapong |
| Glottolog | nort3233 North Sotho + South Ndebele |
S.32,301–304[3] | |
| Linguasphere | |
| Pedi | |
| person | Mopedi |
| people | Bapedi |
| language | Sepedi |
| 0–20% 20–40% 40–60% | 60–80% 80–100% |
| <1 /km² 1–3 /km² 3–10 /km² 10–30 /km² 30–100 /km² | 100–300 /km² 300–1000 /km² 1000–3000 /km² >3000 /km² |
Northern Sotho (Sesotho sa Leboa in Northern Sotho) is an African language mainly spoken by people living in the Limpopo Province of South Africa.
Northern Sotho is one of the eleven official languages of South Africa. It is spoken by almost 4 618 500 people, or 8.4% of South Africans at home (2011-census). Northern Sotho is part of the Sotho language family.
References
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Northern Sotho edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- ↑ Pedi etc. at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Birwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Tswapong at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Webb, Vic. 2002. "Language in South Africa: the role of language in national transformation, reconstruction and development." Impact: Studies in language and society, 14:78
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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