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Tswapong

Tswapong is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in South Africa and Botswana. Glottolog rates it shifting.

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Tswapong · 23.4°S 27.4°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 Tswapong

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