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has been heavily influenced by Sesotho; its speakers have mixed Nguni and Sotho–Tswana ancestry. It seems that it is sometimes treated erroneously as a dialect of Sesotho called "Sephuthi." However, Phuthi is mutually unintelligible with standard Sesotho and thus cannot in any sense be termed a
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dialect of it. The occasional tendency to label all minor languages spoken in Lesotho as "dialects" of Sesotho is considered patronising, in addition to being linguistically inaccurate and in part serving a national myth that all citizens of Lesotho have Sesotho as their mother tongue.
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are derived. Tsotsitaal is not a proper language, as it is primarily a unique vocabulary and a set of idioms but used with the grammar and inflexion rules of another language (usually Sesotho or
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It also has a large number of complex sound transformations which often change the phones of words due to the influence of other (sometimes invisible) sounds.
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protest at the National University of Lesotho. The sign translates: "If you do not listen to women, we will lose patience with you." (2008)
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This article is about the Lesotho and central South African Sotho language. For the northeastern South African Sotho language, see
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Webb, Vic. 2002. "Language in South Africa: the role of language in national transformation, reconstruction and development."
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However, one point that seems to often confuse authors who attempt to study the dialectology of Sesotho is the term
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systems. The grammatical gender system does not encode sex gender, and indeed, Bantu languages in general are not
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A Mosotho woman holding up a sign protesting violence against women, written in her native Sesotho language, at a
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Geographical distribution of Sotho in South Africa: proportion of the population that speaks Sotho at home.
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The most striking properties of Sesotho grammar, and the most important properties which reveal it as a
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Except for faint lexical variation within Lesotho, and for marked lexical variation between the Lesotho/
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Sociolinguistic variation in spoken and written Sesotho: A case study of speech varieties in Qwaqwa
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Additionally, being derived from a language or dialect very closely related to modern Sesotho, the
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Project translating Free and Open Source Software into South African languages, including Sesotho.
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is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them.
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Geographical distribution of Sotho in South Africa: density of Sotho home-language speakers.
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group is geographical, and includes a number of dialects also closely related to Sotho-Lozi.
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The historical implications of the linguistic relationship between Makua and Sotho languages
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The standard Sesotho clicks tend to be substituted with dental clicks in regular speech.
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An often repeated story is that when the modern Basotho nation was established by King
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To the extent that it even has several words that resemble Sesotho words with clicks:
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nation (an old and respected people), was married to chief Tabane of the (Southern)
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for the language in English has seen increasing use since the 1980s, especially in
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one could just as easily say that these words were imported from Nguni languages (
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The oral history of the Basotho and Northern Sotho peoples (as contained in their
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is the root word. Various prefixes may be added for specific derivations, such as
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systems, indicating noun roles almost exclusively through word order.
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variety and that of the large urban townships to the north (such as
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Commission for Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Community Rights
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The sound system of Sesotho is unusual in many respects. It has
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The Sotho-Tswana group is in turn closely related to the other
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is also sometimes cited as a modern dialect of Sesotho named
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Southern Bantu language of Lesotho and neighbouring countries
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Another well-known property of the Bantu languages is their
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A beginner's language text, created for the US Peace Corps.
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when forming the perfect of the passive of verbs ending in
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A gentle introduction to the Sesotho language and culture.
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Sesotho makes a three-way distinction between lightly
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M., Moilwa, J., and Mosaka N. 1997. 1022:) is "a relic of the extinct Tlokwa dialect". 3040: 2847: 2365: 2274: 2211:Information on the language and localisation. 636: 8: 2241:Spell checker for OpenOffice.org and Mozilla 3967:Template:Narrow Bantu languages (Zones N–S) 3962:Template:Narrow Bantu languages (Zones J–M) 3957:Template:Narrow Bantu languages (Zones E–H) 3952:Template:Narrow Bantu languages (Zones C–D) 3947:Template:Narrow Bantu languages (Zones A–B) 3604: 3399: 3247: 3072: 3047: 3033: 3025: 2854: 2840: 2832: 2746: 2591: 2446: 2414: 2372: 2358: 2350: 2281: 2267: 2259: 2159:. M.A. thesis. University of South Africa. 1842:, occurring only before the close vowels ( 643: 629: 553: 100: 2166:. M.A. thesis. 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