Northern Sotho language
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| Northern Sotho Sesotho sa Leboa | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | South Africa | |
| Total speakers: | 4,208,940 | |
| Language family: | Niger-Congo Atlantic-Congo Volta-Congo Benue-Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Narrow Bantu Central Narrow Bantu "S" Central Narrow Bantu Sotho-Tswana Sotho Northern Sotho Northern Sotho | |
| Official status | ||
| Official language of: | South Africa | |
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | nso | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | nso | |
Northern Sotho, Sepedi, or "Sesotho sa Leboa", is one of the official languages of South Africa, and is spoken by 4,208,980 people (2001 Census Data), mostly in the provinces of Gauteng, Limpopo Province and Mpumalanga.
Northern Sotho is one of the so-called Bantu languages, belonging to the Niger-Congo language family. It is most closely related to Setswana and Sesotho (Southern Sotho).
[edit] External links
- Online Northern Sotho - English dictionary
- Project to translate Free Software into Northern Sotho
- Northern Sotho edition of the OpenOffice.org Office suite
- Ethnologue report for Northern Sotho
br:Sothoeg an norzh de:Nord-Sotho es:Sesotho sa leboa fr:Sotho du Nord it:Lingua sesotho del nord nl:Noord-Sotho sv:Sepedi
