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A group of closely related Bantu lects spoken in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, and Zambia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Sesotho (“the language”) (Southern Sotho).
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noun
A Mosotho (“person”); a member of the Basotho (“people”).
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adjective
of or relating to any of the group of Sotho languages
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noun
any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho
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Broader terms: Bantu, Bantoid language
Narrower terms: Sesotho, Basuto, Tswana, Setswana, Sechuana
noun
a member of the Bantu people who inhabit Botswana, Lesotho, and northern South Africa and who speak the Sotho languages
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Broader terms: Bantu
History
Etymology tree Proto-Atlantic-Congo *-nintuder.? Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀ntʊ̀ Sotho motho Sotho -sothoder. English Sotho From Sotho, from Sotho -sotho, from Sotho motho.
Across languages
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