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About Sesotho

Sesotho, also known as Southern Sotho, is the main language spoken in Lesotho. It is one of the two official languages of the country with the other language, English, being mainly used for administrative purposes. Sesotho is also widely spoken in South Africa, where it is one of 12 official languages, and in neighbouring countries including Botswana and Zimbabwe. It is a tonal Bantu language primarily spoken by the Basotho people and its name roughly translates to ‘Southern Sotho’. It has a high degree of mutual intelligibility with the Northern Sotho language also called ‘Sepedi’ or ‘Sesotho sa Leboa’. uTalk recorded native Southern Sotho speakers from Lesotho with the support of the charity Dolen Cymru. The app uses Lesotho spellings.

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Ke kopa kofi.

Dal(a) bych si kávu, prosím.

Planet Earth

Kde se jazykem mluví?

Lesotho

Jihoafrická republika

People Talking

Počet mluvčích

7 000 000

Family Tree

Jazyková rodina

Nigerokonžská

Bantuská

Southern Bantu

Sotho-Tswana

Zajímavosti — Sotština (jižní)

  • A mokorotlo – which is also called a ‘molianyeoe’ in Sesotho - is a conical-shaped traditional straw hat which features on the Lesotho flag and Lesotho vehicle number plates. It is a symbol of the Basotho culture and national identity.
  • There are four variations of the word ‘goodbye’ depending on whether you are the person or people staying or the person or people leaving.
  • The phrase ‘have a safe journey’ (tsela ts’oeu) literally translates as ‘white road’ as the colour white represents good luck.
  • It’s polite to call an older male person ‘ntate’ (father), an older female person ‘me’ (mother), a male of a similar age ‘abuti’ (older brother) and a female of a similar age ‘ausi’ (older sister).
  • An individual Sesotho speaker or citizen of Lesotho is known as ‘mosotho’.
  • A traditional greeting is ‘likhomo’ meaning cow or cattle which represents the importance of cattle in people’s livelihoods as does the idiom ‘Khomo ke Molimo o nko e metsi’ literally ‘the cow: God with a wet nose’.
  • It is one of around 30 African languages which use a clicking sound for pronouncing certain consonants.

Více než 30 milionů lidí začalo díky aplikaci uTalk hovořit novým jazykem

Treasure

Více než 2 500 slov a frází ve více než 60 tématech pokrývajících každodenní situace

Native Speakers

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Games

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