Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A group of closely related Bantu languages, including Tswana, spoken in southern Africa.
  • noun Any of these languages.
  • noun A member of a Sotho-speaking people.

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  • proper noun A group of closely related Bantu lects spoken in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, and Zambia.
  • proper noun specifically Sesotho. (language)
  • proper noun A Mosotho. (person)

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a member of the Bantu people who inhabit Botswana, Lesotho, and northern South Africa and who speak the Sotho languages
  • adjective of or relating to any of the group of Sotho languages
  • noun any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho

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Examples

  • They were all read out in English, Sotho and Xhosa so that everyone must understand.

    MY SPIRIT IS NOT BANNED - FRANCES BAARD 2003

  • Myburgh ordered the local authority to inform all squatters of the order by having it read out on the properties by the sheriff by means of a loudhailer in English, Sotho and Zulu at 10am on

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • The language packs would be available in Afrikaans, Sotho, Xhosa, Zulu and Tswana as well as Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba in Nigeria, Swahili in Kenya and Amharic in Ethiopia.

    IOL Technology 2009

  • The language packs would be available in Afrikaans, Sotho, Xhosa, Zulu and Tswana as well as Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba in Nigeria, Swahili in Kenya and Amharic in Ethiopia.

    IOL Technology 2009

  • энергетика energetika - Russian matla - Sotho from googling I find it used in Southern Sotho and Tswana

    languagehat.com: NAME THAT LANGUAGE! 2005

  • Throughout Saturday and on Sunday morning the Freedom Charter, drafted by the National Action Council representing the Congress Alliance, was read in English, Sotho and Xhosa.

    10. SACTU AND THE CONGRESS ALLIANCE 1980

  • One, in Sotho, declares: “Ke nako ya go ithuta sezulu” (It’s time you learned to speak Zulu).

    Global Voices in English » South Africa: Yet Another Jacob Zuma Fiasco… 2009

  • 'Sediba' means fountain or wellspring in Sotho, which is one of the 11 official languages of South Africa.

    Scientific Blogging logicman 2010

  • I understand that the Sotho are the growers of food.

    The Seminal :: Independent Media And Politics 2010

  • Other official languages such as Sotho, Pedi, Tswana, Tsonga are also closely related, leaving only Venda as an outsider.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

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