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A group of closely related Bantu lects spoken in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, and Zambia. · Sesotho (“the language”) (Southern Sotho).
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA Mosotho (“person”); a member of the Basotho (“people”).
Etymology tree Proto-Atlantic-Congo *-nintuder.? Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀ntʊ̀ Sotho motho Sotho -sothoder. English Sotho From Sotho, from Sotho -sotho, from Sotho motho.
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