Sotho may refer to:
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Sotho people
The Sotho () people, also known as the Basuto or Basotho (), are a Bantu nation native to southern Africa. They split into different ethnic groups over time, due to regional conflicts and colonialism, which resulted in the modern Basotho, who ...
(or ''Basotho''), an African ethnic group principally resident in South Africa, Lesotho and southern Botswana
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Sotho language (''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 languages, 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 A ...
(''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 diale ...
, 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, a group of southern African ethnic groups with a common history, speakers of languages in the Sotho group
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Lesotho
Lesotho ( ), officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a country landlocked as an enclave in South Africa. It is situated in the Maloti Mountains and contains the highest mountains in Southern Africa. It has an area of over and has a populatio ...
, a country in southern Africa entirely surrounded by South Africa
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Sekhukhuneland, the home of the BaPedi people
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