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- Northern Sotho
ISO 639-3 · nsonso
Niger–Congo family
Northern Sotho
Sepedi
Northern Sotho is a language of the Sotho–Tswana branch (Niger–Congo), spoken in South Africa. Wikidata counts about 4.1 m speakers. Wikidata describes it as “Bantu language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
nso- Glottocode
nort2794- Family
- Niger–Congo
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- Centre point
- -23.00, 29.00
- Wikipedia
- 67 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
1scripts
9levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Northern Sotho · Sepedi |
|---|---|
| Also called | Northern Sotho language, nso, sepedi, pedi, Sepulana |
| All speakers | 4,100,000 |
| Written in | Latin script |
| Official in | South Africa |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Niger–Congo to Northern Sotho
The branches above Northern Sotho, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in South Africa
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