sotho in English
According to 1995 estimates, there were about 5.6 million people who identified themselves as southern or northern Sotho in South Africa.
Sesotho, or Southern Sotho , is spoken in Lesotho as well as in parts of South Africa.
The ancestors of the Sotho people entered the area south of the Limpopo River in several migrations.
Use "sotho" in a sentence
1. The Moritsane culture is historically associated with the Khalagari (Kgalagadi) Chiefdoms, the westernmost dialect group of Sotho (or Sotho-Tswana) speakers.
2. Sotho (South Sotho or Basotho) people are concentrated in the Free State, Gauteng and Eastern Cape Provinces, with small groups in Namibia and Zambia
3. The name Gauteng is derived from the Sotho name, gauta meaning "gold" with the locative suffix -eng.
4. Basotho definition: a member of the subgroup of the Sotho people who chiefly inhabit Lesotho Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples
5. Sotho people were also known as Basotho or Bantu people in the kingdom of Lesotho which was enclave by South Africa
6. 1786, near the upper Caledon River, northern Basutoland [now in Lesotho]—died March 11, 1870, Thaba Bosiu, Basutoland), founder and first paramount chief of the Sotho (Basuto, Basotho…
7. The Basotho nation emerged from the unification of a number of smaller southern Sotho clans by King Moshoeshoe (sometimes spelled as Moshesh) at the beginning of the nineteenth century
8. Alternative Titles: Batswana, Bechuana, Botswana Tswana, also called Motswana (singular) or Batswana (plural), formerly spelled Bechuana, westerly division of the Sotho, a Bantu-speaking people of South Africa and Botswana.
9. To see thousands of Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Afrikaans, English, and other South Africans streaming into one united organization is unique —striking proof that Christianity is very much alive in South Africa today!
10. As more farmers were moving into the area they tried to colonise the land between the two rivers, even north of the Caledon, claiming that it had been "abandoned" by the Sotho people.
11. The species name, naledi (seSotho for "star"), and the "Dinaledi Chamber" (incorporating the Sotho word for "stars") were so named by members of the Rising Star Expedition in reference to the species and chamber's location in Rising Star Cave.
12. Griqualand East (Afrikaans: Griekwaland-Oos), officially known as New Griqualand (Dutch: Nieuw Griqualand), was one of four short-lived Griqua states in Southern Africa from the early 1860s until the late 1870s and was located between the Umzimkulu and Kinira Rivers, south of the Sotho Kingdom.
13. Basutoland: 1868-1966: After being annexed by Britain in 1868 as Basutoland, Moshoeshoe's kingdom is transferred in 1871 to the administrative control of the Cape Colony.The Sotho tribes profoundly resent this development, about which they have not been consulted, and the 1870s are a time of increasing unrest in the region.