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Name:
Sotho, Southern
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Sesotho; Sotho; Southern; Suto; Suthu; Souto; Sisutho; Soto
Spoken in:
South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho
Number of speakers:
1,770,000 in Lesotho (Johnstone and Mandryk 2001). Population total all countries: 6,024,000
(Ethnologue)
Code:
sot
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup:
Southern Sotho (ssot)
Child Dialects:
Taung (sot-tau)
Phuthi (sot-phu)
Map of Sotho, Southern
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