Sotho language
Southern Sotho (Sesotho in Southern Sotho) is an African language mainly spoken by people living in Lesotho and the Free State Province of South Africa.
| Southern Sotho | |
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| Sesotho | |
| Native to | Lesotho South Africa |
| Region | Southern Africa |
Native speakers | 6 024 000[1] |
Niger–Congo
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| Official status | |
Official language in |  Lesotho South Africa |
| Regulated by | Pan South African Language Board |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | st |
| ISO 639-2 | sot |
| ISO 639-3 | sot |
Southern Sotho is one of the two official languages of Lesotho and one of the eleven official languages of South Africa. It is spoken by almost 6,024,000 people, or 7% of South Africans at home (2011 census). Southern Sotho is part of the Sotho language family.
Southern Sotho contains many loanwords from Zulu.
References
- "Sotho, Southern". Ethnologue. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
Southern Sotho edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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