Northern Sotho (Sesotho sa Leboa in Northern Sotho) is an African language mainly spoken by people living in the Limpopo Province of South Africa.
Sepedi | |
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Native to | South Africa |
Region | Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga |
Native speakers | 4.7 million (2011 census) 9.1 million L2 speakers (2002) |
Niger–Congo
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Dialects |
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Latin (Sotho alphabet) Sotho Braille | |
Signed Pedi | |
Official status | |
Official language in | South Africa |
Regulated by | Pan South African Language Board |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | nso |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:nso – Pedi etc.brl – Birwatwo – Tswapong |
Glottolog | nort3233 North Sotho + South Ndebele |
Guthrie code | S.32,301–304 |
Linguasphere |
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Pedi | |
person | Mopedi |
people | Bapedi |
language | Sepedi |
0–20% 20–40% 40–60% | 60–80% 80–100% |
<1 /km² 1–3 /km² 3–10 /km² 10–30 /km² 30–100 /km² | 100–300 /km² 300–1000 /km² 1000–3000 /km² >3000 /km² |
Northern Sotho is one of the eleven official languages of South Africa. It is spoken by almost 4 618 500 people, or 8.4% of South Africans at home (2011-census). Northern Sotho is part of the Sotho language family.
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