Sotho may refer to:
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Sotho people (or ''Basotho''), an African ethnic group principally resident in South Africa, Lesotho and southern Botswana
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Sotho language
Sotho () or Sesotho () or Southern Sotho is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho–Tswana ("S.30") group, spoken primarily by the Basotho in Lesotho, where it is the national and official language; South Africa (particularly the Free ...
(''Sesotho'' or ''Southern Sotho''), a Bantu language spoken in southern Africa, an official language of both South Africa and Lesotho
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Northern Sotho language
Northern Sotho, or as an endonym, is a Sotho-Tswana language spoken in the northeastern provinces of South Africa. It is sometimes referred to as or , its main dialect, through synecdoche.
According to the South African National Censu ...
(''Sesotho sa Leboa''), a group of related Bantu dialects classed together as an official language of South Africa
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Sotho–Tswana languages
Sotho–Tswana languages are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken in Southern Africa.
The Sotho–Tswana group corresponds to the S.30 label in Guthrie's 1967–71 classification of languages in the Bantu family.
The various dia ...
, the S.30 language group, a linguistic classification which groups together the related languages Sotho, Northern Sotho, Tswana, and Lozi
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Sotho-Tswana peoples
The Sotho-Tswana people are a meta-ethnicity of southern Africa and live predominantly in Botswana, South Africa and Lesotho. The group mainly consists of four clusters; Southern Sotho (Sotho), Northern Sotho (which consists of the Bapedi, ...
, a group of southern African ethnic groups with a common history, speakers of languages in the Sotho group
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Lesotho, a country in southern Africa entirely surrounded by South Africa
*Bosotho, a region in Limpopo province, also known as
Sekhukhuneland, the home of the BaPedi people
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