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Preferred term

sotSotho language  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • |style = "float: right" |- | valign = "top"| | |} The Sotho language, also known as Sesotho, Southern Sotho, or Southern Sesotho, is a Bantu language spoken primarily in South Africa, where it is one of the 11 official languages, and in Lesotho, where it is the national language. It is an agglutinative language which uses numerous affixes and derivational and inflexional rules to build complete words.

Entry terms

  • Sotho, Southern
  • Southern Sotho

ISO 639-1 code

  • st

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • sot

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • sot

ISO 639-3 code

  • sot

Notation

  • sot

In other languages

  • sesotho

    French

  • sotho du Sud
  • Sotho du Sud
  • Sesotho

    German

  • Süd-Sotho-Sprache
  • sotho del sud

    Italian

  • Lingua sotho del sud
  • soto do sul

    Portuguese

  • SeSotho do sul
  • Idioma sesotho

    Spanish

  • sesotho meridional

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/sot

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