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<div class="pg_page_title">Sothern Sotho (Sesotho) Alphabet and Pronunciation</div>
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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.
When you've comprehended the knowledge in this module, you may be keen on exploring these related areas: [[Language/Southern-sotho|sotho]].
==Alphabet==
==Alphabet==
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|y
|y
|/j/
|/j/
|}
=== Voyelles ===
Sesotho uses 9 or 7 vowels.
{| class="wikitable"
!
!Antérieur
!Postérieur
|-
!Fermé
|i
|u
|-
!Pré-fermée
|ɪ
|ʊ
|-
!Mi-fermé
|e
|o
|-
!Mi-ouvert
|ɛ
|ɔ
|-
!Ouvert
| colspan="2" |ɑ
|}
|}


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<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibCZtzg7eMk</youtube>
<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibCZtzg7eMk</youtube>


===Sesotho Basics²===
===Sesotho Basics===
<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZGcCyiQIoU</youtube>
<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZGcCyiQIoU</youtube>


[[Category:Alphabet-and-Pronunciation]]
[[Category:Alphabet-and-Pronunciation]]
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Latest revision as of 19:41, 26 March 2023

Sothern Sotho (Sesotho) Alphabet and Pronunciation
Lesotho-Timeline-PolyglotClub.png

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.

When you've comprehended the knowledge in this module, you may be keen on exploring these related areas: sotho.

Alphabet[edit | edit source]

Orthography IPA
a /ɑ/
b /b/
bj /bʒ/
/bj/
d [d]
e /ɪ/
/e/
/ɛ/
f /f/
fj /fʃ/
h /h/ or /ɦ/
hl /ɬ/
i /i/
j /ʒ/
/d͡ʒ/
k /kʼ/
kh /kʰ/
kg /x/
/k͡xʰ/
l /l/
m /m/
n /n/
ng /ŋ/
ny /ɲ/
o /ʊ/
/o/
/ɔ/
p /pʼ/
ph /pʰ/
pj /pʃʼ/
pjh /pʃʰ/
q /ǃ/
qh /ǃʰ/
nq /ᵑǃ/
r /ʀ/
s /s/
sh /ʃ/
t /tʼ/
th /tʰ/
tj /t͡ʃʼ/
tjh /t͡ʃʰ/
tl /t͡ɬʼ/
tlh /t͡ɬʰ/
ts /t͡sʼ/
tsh /t͡sʰ/
u /u/
w /w/
y /j/

Voyelles[edit | edit source]

Sesotho uses 9 or 7 vowels.

Antérieur Postérieur
Fermé i u
Pré-fermée ɪ ʊ
Mi-fermé e o
Mi-ouvert ɛ ɔ
Ouvert ɑ

Videos[edit | edit source]

LEARN SESOTHO[edit | edit source]

Sesotho Basics[edit | edit source]

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