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The Sotho language (;〔Laurie Bauer, 2007, ''The Linguistics Student's Handbook'', Edinburgh〕 also known as ''Sesotho'', Southern Sotho, or Southern ''Sesotho''〔Historically also ''Suto'', or ''Suthu'', ''Souto'', ''Sisutho'', ''Sutu'', or ''Sesutu'', according to the pronunciation of the name.〕) is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho-Tswana (S.30) group, spoken primarily in South Africa, where it is one of the 11 official languages, and in Lesotho, where it is the national language. Like all Bantu languages, Sesotho is an agglutinative language, which uses numerous affixes and derivational and inflexional rules to build complete words. ==Classification== Sotho is a Southern Bantu language, belonging to the Niger–Congo language family within the Sotho-Tswana branch of Zone S (S.30). "Sotho" is also the name given to the entire Sotho-Tswana group, in which case Sotho proper is called "Southern Sotho". Within the Sotho-Tswana group, Sotho proper is most closely related to Lozi (''Silozi''), with which it forms the Sesotho-Lozi group within Sotho-Tswana. The Northern Sotho group is geographical, and includes a number of dialects also closely related to Sesotho-Lozi. Northern Sotho language. Tswana is also known as "Western Sotho". The Sotho-Tswana group is in turn closely related to the other Southern Bantu languages, including the Venḓa, Tsonga, Tonga, and Nguni languages, and possibly also the Makua (zone P) languages of Tanzania and Mozambique. ''Sotho'' is a tribal name, i.e. the name of the Sotho people or ''Basotho'', while ''Sesotho'' is the term for the "language of the Sotho". Use of ''Sesotho'' rather than "Sotho language" in English has seen increasing use since the 1980s, especially in South African English and in Lesotho. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sotho language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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