• earliest orthographies were more like French spelling, still seen in the writing of the approximants /j/ and /w/ in the modern Lesotho variant. Sesotho in South...
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  • The Sesotho language has traditional names for the months of the familiar Gregorian calendar. The names reflect a deep connection that the Basotho people...
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    vital role in delineating Sesotho orthography and printing Sesotho language materials between 1837 and 1855. The first Sesotho translation of the Bible...
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  • Sotho language (redirect from Sesotho)
    Sotho (/sɛˈsuːtuː/) Sesotho, also known as Southern Sotho or Sesotho sa Borwa is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho–Tswana ("S.30") group, spoken in...
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  • Sotho nouns (redirect from Sesotho nouns)
    Sesotho nouns signify concrete or abstract concepts in the language, but are distinct from the Sesotho pronouns. Bantu languages are often said to have...
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  • nine phonemic vowels are collapsed into only five letters in the Sesotho orthography. The two close vowels i and u (sometimes called "superclose" or "first-degree"...
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    South African Sesotho orthography (pronounced: /ditʼɪːma/; Singular: Tema, Sesotho for "text" or "ploughed land") is a form of Sesotho mural art composed...
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    § Phonology. See Help:IPA/Nguni and Zulu language § Orthography. See Help:IPA, Sesotho orthography § Sotho alphabet and Sotho phonology. See Help:IPA/Afrikaans...
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  • The Sesotho parts of speech convey the most basic meanings and functions of the words in the language, which may be modified in largely predictable ways...
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  • Just as the Sesotho sentence centres on the Sesotho noun, the noun is made to "concòrd" ("agree") with the verbs, pronouns, and qualificatives describing...
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