Southern Sotho

The people of Lesotho speak Sesotho, or Southern Sotho, which is one of three branches of the Sotho language group.

No Place Left to Bury the Dead Nicole Itano 2007

If as it appears, Zadok is using Southern Sotho then let her stick to that and not change along the way.

Gem Squash Tokoloshe by Rachel Zadok Lauri 2009

I had already gained fluency in Southern Sotho, isiZulu, and Xhosa during this sabbatical, which placed me between Jeremiah Curtin and Hans Conon von der Gaelentz in the all-time polyglot rankings, if I were counting.

Anaphylaxis 2009

If as it appears, Zadok is using Southern Sotho then let her stick to that and not change along the way.

Archive 2009-03-01 Lauri 2009

There are actually more speakers of Sesotho in South Africa, where it is one of eleven official languages, than in Lesotho, although South African speakers of Southern Sotho would not generally refer to themselves as Basotho.

No Place Left to Bury the Dead Nicole Itano 2007

Rethabile Masilo, a Lesotho national living in Paris, has blogs On English and On Sesotho, the latter dedicated to the Southern Sotho language of Lesotho and South Africa; from a recent post I learned the etymology and pronunciation of the name of Gauteng Province:

languagehat.com: GAUTENG. 2004

It is related to Sesotho (Southern Sotho) and Setswana.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

Van Schalkwyk said that whether South Africans were coloured, white, Indian, Southern Sotho, Tswana, or Zulu, their hearts were just as patriotic as Mbeki's.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

Southern Sotho, Tsonga, Swati, Venda and Ndebele make up the 11.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

Southern Sotho spell checker is an add-on that allows you to check spelling in Sotho and avoided typing errors in Firefox and Thunderbird.

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