TerraverbaAn atlas of the world’s languages 简体中文 Open the atlas

Birwa

Birwa is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana. Glottolog rates it threatened.

See it on the globeOpen in the family tree

Birwa · 22.2°S 28.3°E

Northern Sotho is one of South Africa's twelve official languages and belongs to the Bantu language family specifically the Sotho-Tswana group. The language is spoken mainly in Limpopo Province, and to a lesser extent in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, and North West.

Northern Sotho is the umbrella term for a group of certain dialects.

As of the 2022 South African Census, approximately 6.2 million people, or 10.0% of the national population, speak Northern Sotho as their first language. Northern Sotho ranks as the fifth most spoken first language.

From Wikipedia · Northern Sotho · CC BY-SA 4.0

Words in Birwa

MeaningWordRomanization
persontho*
nameina*
eyeitho*
earcebe*
nosenko*
toothino*
tongueleme*
handseata*
bloodmadi*
bonerapo*
skintalo*
kneekhuru*
breastsehuba*
liversebete*
watermeci*
firelelo*
sunjaji*
starnaledi*
stonefika*
mountainthaba*
treesethare*
leafthare*
nightbosiho*
dogmpya*
fishthapi*
onedehe*
twobedi*
drinknwa*
seebona*
heartwa*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

Most similar languages

Vocabulary

Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.

Nearby languages

Elsewhere

Something wrong here? Tell us

Glottolog · birw1238 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · brl