Sotho

[soo-too, soh-toh]

noun

plural

Sothos ,

plural

Sotho .

1. a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken in Lesotho and South Africa.

2. any of the Sotho languages, especially Sesotho.

3. Also called Basuto. a member of any of a cluster of linguistically and culturally related Bantu-speaking peoples of southern Africa, including the Tswana.

Sotho

/ ˈsuːtuː, ˈsəʊtəʊ /

noun

1. a member of a large grouping of Negroid peoples of southern Africa, living chiefly in Botswana, South Africa, and Lesotho

2. 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

3. a member of the Basotho people; a Mosotho

4. the dialect of Sotho spoken by the Basotho; Sesotho. It is an official language of Lesotho along with English

Example Sentences

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.

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It’s a fitting ritual for a show in which Africa is celebrated and there are six indigenous languages sung and spoken: Swahili, Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Tswana and Congolese.

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And Khahliso says her relationship with her mother tongues has changed as she is now less proficient in languages like Sotho and Xhosa.

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In the Southern Sotho language, ledumahadi means giant thunder clap, and mafube means dawn, indicating the species’ relatively early position in their evolutionary lineage.

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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.

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