Sesotho
type: Q315
type: Language
type: Thing
name: Sotho
label: اللغة السوتية @ar
label: ソト語 @ja
label: Sotho language
label: Сесото @ru
label: Sesoto @pt
label: Sota lingvo @eo
label: Sotho du Sud @fr
label: Sesothština @cs
label: Bahasa Sesotho @in
label: Język sotho @pl
label: Sothoera @eu
label: Lingua sotho del sud @it
label: 塞索托语 @zh
label: 소토어 @ko
label: Zuid-Sotho @nl
subject: Category:Subject–verb–object languages
subject: Category:Vowel-harmony languages
subject: Category:Sotho language
agency: Pan South African Language Board
language regulator: Pan South African Language Board
spoken in: Lesotho
spoken in: Zimbabwe
spoken in: South Africa
nativename: Sesotho
language family: Benue–Congo languages
language family: Volta–Congo languages
language family: Bantoid languages
language family: Atlantic–Congo languages
fam: Southern Bantu languages
fam: Sotho–Tswana languages
fam: Bantu languages
fam: Benue–Congo languages
fam: Volta–Congo languages
fam: Bantoid languages
fam: Atlantic–Congo languages
fam: Southern Bantoid languages
familycolor: Niger-Congo
script: Ditema tsa Dinoko
script: South African braille
script: Latin script
speakers: 7900000
speakers: 5600000
people: Sotho people
ethnicity: Sotho people
language: Sesotho
guthrie: S.33
ref: e18
sign: Manually coded language in South Africa
iso6393 code: sot
altname: Southern Sotho
dia: Phuthi
dia: Taung
glotto: sout2807
glottorefname: Southern Sotho
iso: sot
iso: st
root: Sotho
states: Zimbabwe
states: Lesotho
states: South Africa
description: lingua @la
description: Southern Bantu language
description: سوېلي بانتو ژبه @ps
description: lingua parlata in Sudafrica e Lesotho @it
description: দক্ষিণী বান্টু ভাষা @bn
description: բանտու լեզվախմբի լեզու @hy
description: taal @af
description: bantu valodu saimes valoda @lv
description: језик @sr
description: لغة @ary
description: Língua banta falada no sul da África @pt
description: iaith Affrica @cy
description: språk @sv
description: yezh @br