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==Facts about Southern Sotho == | ==Facts about Southern Sotho == | ||
Southern Sotho is one of the official languages of South Africa and is spoken by approximately 5 million people in Lesotho, Botswana, South Africa, Namibia and Zambia. Southern Sotho is also known as Sotho, Sesotho or Southern Sesotho. The first written form of Southern Sotho was devised by Thomas Arbousset, Eugène Casalis and Constant Gosselin, French missionaries from the Paris Evangelical Mission who arrived in Lesotho in 1833. | |||
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*'''Language code (ISO 639-3)''': <code>sot</code> | *'''Language code (ISO 639-3)''': <code>sot</code> | ||
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*'''The Southern Sotho language is spoken in''': <code>Lesotho</code> | *'''The Southern Sotho language is spoken in''': <code>Lesotho</code> | ||
==Videos== | ==Videos== | ||
Revision as of 22:37, 1 December 2022
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Facts about Southern Sotho
Southern Sotho is one of the official languages of South Africa and is spoken by approximately 5 million people in Lesotho, Botswana, South Africa, Namibia and Zambia. Southern Sotho is also known as Sotho, Sesotho or Southern Sesotho. The first written form of Southern Sotho was devised by Thomas Arbousset, Eugène Casalis and Constant Gosselin, French missionaries from the Paris Evangelical Mission who arrived in Lesotho in 1833.
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
sot
- Autonyms (how to write "Southern Sotho" in Southern Sotho):
Sesotho
- Other names for "Southern Sotho":
Sesotho, Sisutho, Souto, Suthu, Suto
- The Southern Sotho language is spoken in:
Lesotho