sotho

1. Of or relating to any of the group of Sotho languages (synset 303131109)
   "Sotho noun classifiers"

1. A member of the Bantu people who inhabit Botswana, Lesotho, and northern South Africa and who speak the Sotho languages (synset 109712768)
   is a type of: bantu - a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa
   belongs to:

   • botswana, republic of botswana - a landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960s
   • basutoland, kingdom of lesotho, lesotho - a landlocked constitutional monarchy in southern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966
   • republic of south africa, south africa - a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers)
2. Any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho (synset 107007882)
   is a type of: bantoid language, bantu - a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
   subtypes:

   • basuto, sesotho - the dialect of Sotho spoken by the Basotho; an official language of Lesotho
   • sechuana, setswana, tswana - the dialect of Sotho spoken by the Tswana in Botswana

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