#sesotho

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Her Royal Highness Princess Senate Seeiso of the Kingdom of Lesotho. 

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South Africa has 11 official languages: Zulu, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, Sepedi, Setswana, English, Sesotho, Xitsonga, Siswati, Tshivenda and Ndebele. Many black South Africans are reluctant to use Afrikaans. The elite university, Stellenbosch, came under fire in 2015 for using Afrikaans in lectures, with some students saying they struggled in classes because of it. In 2021, the university announced its recommitment to a multilingual language policy, including Afrikaans, English and isiXhosa.

‘Ryanair Afrikaans test: South African fury over language quiz’, BBC

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Numbers in some native languages of South Africa.

All are Southern Bantu Languages - Xhosa and Zulu in the Zunda family of the Nguni branch, Swazi (or SiSwati) in the Tekala family of the Nguni branch, Tswana and Sesotho in the Sotho-Tswana branch and Tsonga in the Tswa-Ronga branch.

In addition to South Africa, Swazi is native to Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), Lesotho and Mozambique.

Zulu is also native to Lesotho and Eswatini.

Tswana is also native to Botswana, Zimbabwe and Namibia.

Sesotho is also native to Lesotho.

Tsonga is also native to Eswatini, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

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▲▼▲ THE LANGUAGES OF SOUTH AFRICA ▲▼▲

AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS TO OTHER LANGUAGES

★ Official languages : Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, Sesotho, Sesotho sa Leboa, Setswana, siSwati, Xitsonga, Tshivenḓa, isiXhosa, isiZulu

☆ Dutch : a former official language (until 1984) ☆ |Xam : language of the National Motto !ke e: /xarra //ke (‘diverse people unite’ or ‘unity in diversity’) ☆ Khoekhoegowab (Nama) : the first of the so-called Khoisan languages to be added to the school curriculum (in the Northern Cape province)(x)

the Khoikhoi and the San/Bushman are the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa. their languages form part of three families : Khoe-Kwadi, Tuu and K’xa, and are characterised by the large number of click phonemes. the three families were previously grouped together as the ‘Khoisan’ languages.

during the Bantu Expansion, Bantu-speaking peoples spread across much of the continent, and reached southern Africa around the 3rd or 4th Century. Bantu languages are known for their extensive noun-class systems, and due to contact with the Khoe, Tuu and K’xa languages, languages like isiXhosa, isiZulu and Sesotho have acquired a few click phonemes too.

in 1652, the Dutch East-India Company (VOC) established a permanent settlement at the Cape of Good Hope. many Dutch settlers declared themselves vrÿburghers (free citizens), cutting themselves off from the VOC and the Netherlands. the Dutch spoken by these vrÿburghers (later Boers) and their Malay slaves would eventually evolve into Afrikaans. in 1814, the British acquired the Cape and thence set out to colonise much of the African continent, introducing English as an official language

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A Year in Language, Day 197: Sesotho Sesotho is a Bantu language spoken primarily in Lesotho, an enclave nation located wholly within the borders of South Africa, as well as the surrounding regions of South Africa. There are almost 6 million native speakers, and that number doubles when counting second language speakers. Sesotho is phonologically unusual for a Bantu language. This is largely due to the influence of Khoisan languages. If you read the post on Sandawe (and of course you did, why wouldn't you?) you will recall that Khoisan is not a true language family, it's members do not share a common ancestor, but instead an areal grouping of non-Bantu languages spoken in southern Africa known for their clicks and other rare consonant types. To this end Sesotho also has clicks, ejectives, and lateral fricatives, and lacks the prenasalized consonants found in most Bantu languages. Though it is a Bantu oddball phonetically, its grammar is much more typical; it has the large inventory of grammatical genders typical of Bantu languages, as well as tonality and agglutinative morphology.

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The western movie genre has traditionally told stories with colonist undertones, of white cowboys who conquer new frontiers. But the South African film, “Five Fingers for Marseilles,” is on a mission to change that, reclaiming the white-dominated film style, with a story steeped in South African history and told primarily through Sesotho, a language of the Basotho people. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this year. 

Learn more about the film here: http://bit.ly/2xVM1Du. 

(Photos via @fivefingersformarseilles on Instagram)

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