Southern Sotho
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Southern Sotho is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in South Africa and Lesotho, by about 6 million people.
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Sotho (), also known as Sesotho (), Southern Sotho, or Sesotho sa Borwa, is a Southern Bantu language spoken in Lesotho, as its national language, and South Africa, where it is an official language.
Like all Bantu languages, Sotho is an agglutinative language, using numerous affixes and derivational and inflexional rules to build complete words.
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Written down
Batho bohle ba tswetswe ba lokolohile mme ba lekana ka botho le ditokelo. Ba tswetswe le monahano le letswalo mme ba tlamehile ho phedisana le ba bang ka moya wa boena.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Southern Sotho
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| mother | mme | |
| father | ntate | |
| child | ngwana | |
| woman | mosadi | |
| name | lebitso | |
| friend | motswalle | |
| eye | leihlo | |
| ear | tsebe | |
| nose | nko | |
| tongue | leleme | |
| hand | letsoho | |
| heart | pelo | |
| head | hlooho | |
| blood | madi | |
| bone | lesapo | |
| liver | sebete | |
| water | metsi | |
| fire | mollo | |
| sun | letsatsi | |
| moon | kgwedi | |
| star | naledi | |
| rain | pula | |
| snow | lehlwa | |
| wind | moya | |
| mountain | thaba | |
| river | noka | |
| tree | sefate | |
| night | hosiu | |
| dog | ntja | |
| cat | katse |
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
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