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Name: Sotho, Northern
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Sotho (Northern); Sotho; Northern; Pedi; Sepedi; Transvaal Sotho
Spoken in: South Africa, Botswana
Number of speakers: 4,090,000 in South Africa (2006), increasing. Population total all countries: 4,101,000 (Ethnologue)
Code: nso
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup: Northern Sotho (nsot)
Child Dialects: Matlala-Moletshi (nso-mat) Khutswe; Khutswi; Kutswe (nso-khu) Kopa (nso-kop) Koni; Kone (nso-kon) Gananwa; Xananwa; Hananwa (nso-gan) Tswene; Tweni (nso-tsw) Pai (nso-pai) Tlokwa; Tlokoa; Tokwa; Dogwa (nso-tlo) Masemola; Masemula; Tau (nso-mas) Phalaborwa; Phalaburwa; Thephalaborwa (nso-pha) Dzwabo; Thabine-Roka-Nareng (nso-dzw) Lobedu; Lubedu; Lovedu; Khelobedu (nso-lob) Pulana (nso-pul) Kgaga; Kxaxa; Khaga (nso-kga)

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