Sotho
Americannoun
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Sothos,plural
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a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken in Lesotho and South Africa.
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any of the Sotho languages, especially Sesotho.
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Also called Basuto. a member of any of a cluster of linguistically and culturally related Bantu-speaking peoples of southern Africa, including the Tswana.
noun
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a member of a large grouping of Negroid peoples of southern Africa, living chiefly in Botswana, South Africa, and Lesotho
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the group of mutually intelligible languages of this people, including Lesotho, Tswana, and Pedi. It belongs to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family
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a member of the Basotho people; a Mosotho
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the dialect of Sotho spoken by the Basotho; Sesotho. It is an official language of Lesotho along with English
Example Sentences
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The human-voice clips, which were at conversational volume levels, came from radio or television recordings of people speaking the four most used languages in the region, including Tsonga, Northern Sotho, English, and Afrikaans.
From Science Daily • Oct. 5, 2023
The next morning, she and her team were back in Freedom Park, making their way through clusters of small brick homes and shacks and speaking in Zulu, Tsonga and Sotho.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 15, 2016
Mendoza has already started preliminary discussions with Isao Yukisada of Japan and Cambodian Sotho Kulikar for a film to be shown at next year’s Tokyo festival.
From Washington Times • Oct. 22, 2015
Mendoza has already started preliminary discussions with Isao Yukisada of Japan and Cambodian Sotho Kulikar for a film to be shown at next year's Tokyo festival.
From US News • Oct. 22, 2015
At the time, black South Africans outnumbered white South Africans nearly five to one, yet we were divided into different tribes with different languages: Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Sotho, Venda, Ndebele, Tsonga, Pedi, and more.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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