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About Sotho

Native name
Sesotho
ISO code
ISO 639-1: st · ISO 639-3: sot
Language family
Niger-Congo › Bantu
Script
Latin
Native speakers
5.6 million
Second-language speakers
8 million
Official language in
Lesotho, South Africa
Official language Also spoken

Sesotho (Southern Sotho) is the national language of Lesotho and an official language of South Africa. It was one of the first Bantu languages to be written, by missionaries in the 19th century.

Source: Wikipedia / Ethnologue, 2025