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	Pedi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Northern Sotho (Sesotho sa Leboa in the language itself) is one of the official languages of South Africa, and is spoken by nearly five million â” 4,208,980 people (2001 Census Data) â” in the South African provinces of Gauteng, Limpopo Province and Mpumalanga.
		Northern Sotho is a language of the Bantu family within the Niger-Congo language phylum.
		Northern Sotho is often, but erroneously, referred to as Sepedi, since for some years afer the new South African constitution appeared, Pedi (or Sepedi) was the name used for Northern Sotho.
	www.wikipedia-mirror.co.za /p/e/d/Pedi.html (419 words)

	Northern Sotho language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Northern Sotho (Sesotho sa Leboa in the language itself) is one of the official languages of South Africa, and is spoken by nearly five million — 4,208,980 people (2001 Census Data) — in the South African provinces of Gauteng, Limpopo Province and Mpumalanga.
		Northern Sotho is a language of the Bantu family within the Niger-Congo language phylum.
		Northern Sotho is specifically found within the Sotho languages branch of Zone S (S.30).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northern_Sotho_language (436 words)

	Ndebele language
		The Northern Ndebele or Nrebele and the Southern Ndebele otherwise known as Amandebele.
		Unfortunately this language was never taken seriously, so it was never taught at school and neither did anyone sit down and compile a proper orthography.
		The language is sometimes mistakenly grouped under the Northern Sotho group of dialects.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/nd/Ndebele_language.html (333 words)

	Northern Sotho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Northern Sotho is spoken by perhaps four million people Southeast Africa, primarily in South Africa.
		It a member of the Benue-Congo brach of the Niger-Congo subfamily of Niger-Kordofanian language family.
		It is considered a Bantu language; it is related to Swahili and Zulu.
	www.flw.com /languages/sotho.htm (43 words)

	African Languages - Sesotho sa Leboa (Northern Sotho)
		Sesotho sa Leboa (Northern Sotho, or literally, "Sotho of the North") is mostly spoken in the North-Eastern parts of South Africa, generally North-East of Tshwane (Pretoria), in parts of Gauteng, Northern Province and Mpumalanga (see map).
		Sesotho sa Leboa is one of the 11 official languages of South Africa.
		If you are learning Northern Sotho, you might find this noun class reference chart handy (note: this is for reference/study purposes, but it assumes you have already studied the grammar).
	africanlanguages.com /northern_sotho (1782 words)

	On Sesotho: August 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Language may be viewed as a manifestation of the individual in interaction with others.
		It was in the rural areas that language influence was initially most prevalent and hence naturally words relating to rural artifacts and a rural way of life were adopted and in most cases adapted to the language system of the borrower.
		The 's' of 'stoel' is perceived as being the prefix isi- in the Nguni languages and prefix se- in the Sotho languages and the root then is –tulo.
	sesotho.blogspot.com /2004_08_01_sesotho_archive.html (2102 words)

	The Niger-Congo Language Family
		Determining the number of languages in this family is complicated by the fact that it is often difficult to decide, in the absence of written historical records, whether two language varieties are two dialects of the same language or two separate languages.
		The Niger-Congo language family is usually divided several major branches that are estimated to have split from the ancestral language some 5,000 years ago.
		All nouns in Niger-Congo languages are assigned to classes on the basis of their singular and plural forms that are marked by one prefix or suffix in the singular and another in the plural.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/september/niger.html (1183 words)

	South African - Northern Sotho in South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The language Northern Sotho is mostly spoken Northern Province of South Africa.
		This language is often (as in the Constitution of South Africa) wrongly referred to as "Sepedi", while in actual fact the Sepedi is considered but a dialect of the the language "Northern Sotho".
		It is a member of the Sotho language group.
	www.southafrican.za.net /northern-sotho.html (143 words)

	Northern Sotho language biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Northern Sotho, or "Sesotho sa Leboa", is one of the official languages of South Africa, and is spoken by 4,208,980 people (2001 Census Data), mostly in the provinces of Gauteng, Limpopo Province and Mpumalanga.
		The Northern Sotho language has historically been largely based on the dialect Sepedi.
		Northern Sotho is one of the so-called Bantu languages, belonging to the Niger-Congo language family.
	www.biography.ms /Northern_Sotho_language.html (82 words)

	The languages of South Africa - SouthAfrica.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sesotho, or Southern Sotho, is spoken in the country of Lesotho, which is entirely surrounded by South African territory, as well as in the Free State province, southern Gauteng, and in the vicinity of Pretoria and Brits.
		The language of the Tswana people is spoken mostly in Botswana, a country on the northwestern border of South Africa, as well as in the Northern Cape province, the central and western Free State and in North West.
		Their language, Xitsonga, is spoken in eastern Limpopo and Mumalanga, areas near the border of the country of Mozambique, as well as in southern Mozambique and southeastern Zimbabwe.
	www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/demographics/language.htm (2435 words)

	Northern Sotho (US Standard) Keyboard Stickers
		The Northern Sotho keyboard stickers conform to the Northern Sotho keyboard layout in Windows XP; it is the same as the standard US English keyboard layout.
		Northern Sotho stickers are a very economical option for creating a bilingual Northern Sotho keyboard.
		Because Northern Sotho uses the standard US English keyboard layout, it is supported in all English versions of Windows; if a version of Windows does not include the Northern Sotho language, you can simply select the English (United States) keyboard layout.
	www.datacal.com /northern-sotho-overlays.htm (805 words)

	Sotho/Tswana
		Northern Sotho (S32), also known as Pedi or Transvaal Sotho, is spoken in northeastern South Africa (Transvaal).
		Southern Sotho (also known as Sotho proper), spoken farther to the south, is the predominant language of Lesotho.
		Tswana is, according to Heine (1970), "next to English the official language of Botswana." In 1985, these languages became mandatory subjects in South African junior and secondary schools.
	www.isp.msu.edu /AfrLang/language.php?id=66 (157 words)

	sociology - English language
		The English language belongs to the western sub-branch of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
		Frisian is a language spoken by approximately half a million people in the Dutch province of Friesland (Fryslân), in nearby areas of Germany, and on a few islands in the North Sea.
		English is also one of the primary languages of Belize (with Spanish), Canada (with French), India (with Hindi and 21 other state languages), Ireland (with Irish), Singapore (with Malay, Mandarin, Tamil and other Asian languages) and South Africa (along with Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, and Northern Sotho).
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/English_language (2913 words)

	Linguist List - Web Resource Listings
		Amarauna Languages: World Languages Network AMARAUNA is a project which aims to promote the linguistic rights and its goal is to strengthen relations among people and institutions that have realized about the importance of the heritage and diversity of the languages of the world.
		Center for Research in Language (CRL): The Center for Research in Language (CRL) brings together faculty, students and research associates who share an interest in the nature of language, the processes by which it is acquired and used, and the mediation of language in the human brain.
		Institut für Deutsche Sprache: The Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim is the central non-university institution for the study and documentation of current usage and recent history of the German language.
	linguistlist.org /sp/Projects.html (8149 words)

	Sesotho Web : Harmonised or unified Sotho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Sotho subgroup of the Ntu (Bantu) language family consists of: Sesotho (Southern Sotho), Setswana and Sesotho sa Leboa (Northern Sotho).
		In 1945 J.M. Nhlapo suggested a unification of the Sotho languages with a new unified orthography.
		Yet the separate development of the various Sotho languages was promoted during the Apartheid rule in South Africa.
	www.sesotho.web.za /harmonisation.htm (511 words)

	OHCHR: Southern Sotho/Sotho/Sesotho/Sutu/Sesutu () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Southern Sotho is largely inherently intelligible with Pedi (Northern Sotho) and Tswana (Western Sotho), though they are considered separate languages.
		It is a language of secondary education, used on the radio and in newspapers.
		It's a tonal language, and an agglutinating language (based on a combination of simple word elements to express a specific meaning), with many suffixes and prefixes used in sentence construction causing sound changes.
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/sso.htm (1923 words)

	South African Languages \| Lobedu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This language variety is associated with Northern Sotho (Sepedi) as it is regarded as a dialect of Northern Sotho.
		It exists only in an unwritten form and the standard Northern Sotho language and orthography is usually used for teaching and writing by this language community.
		Lobedu is mainly spoken in the area of Duiwelskloof in the Limpopo Province (former Northern Province).
	www.cyberserv.co.za /users/~jako/lang/lobedu/index.htm (93 words)

	Cumberland County Library - Foreign Language Center
		More that 125 different languages are represented in the collection, and they are in the library's catalog of resources.
		For 22 years, the library was the recipient of federal funds to develop a foreign language collection for the state of North Carolina.
		Most of these learning language learning kits are designed for tourists, while some are intended for long-term serious study of certain languages.
	www.cumberland.lib.nc.us /lib_svcs/serv_forlanguage.htm (423 words)

	Ethnologue: South Africa
		Of those, 27 are living languages, 1 is a second language without mother tongue speakers, and 3 are extinct.
		Language of secondary education and used on the radio.
		Sotho, Pedi, and Tswana are largely inherently intelligible but have generally been considered separate languages.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Sout.html (1514 words)

	Sotho Dictionary, Sotho Software - Mac, Sotho Software - Windows, Sotho Fonts, Sotho OCR, Sotho Reference, Sotho System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sotho, more correctly called Sesotbo, is one of the major languages of southern Africa.
		Sotho proper refers to Southern Sotho, spoken by about 2 million people in Lesotho and another 3 million in the surrounding areas of South Africa.
		While this government does guarantee tbe protection of the human rights of every mother and father in the country, the right to marry and to procreate, it must remind the citizens of Lesotho to be aware of their great responsibility to the society as a whole, and to the future well-being of the entire nation.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Sotho.htm (218 words)

	Brenda F (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bonnie, who emigrated to South Africa in 1978 for the Baha’i Faith and lived in the Xhosa homeland of the Transkei with her husband and four children, reports that one elderly Xhosa woman once told her: “You are a white, fl woman.
		When she found out that most of the Northern Sotho women were illiterate, she started continuing education courses for them in her own home.
		Although she was given the Northern Sotho name Malefatane (the one who went away a long time ago and has returned), she consciously overcame the usual condition of marginality of foreigners.
	usconsulate-istanbul.org.tr /reppub/newamstud/berrian.htm (5056 words)

	Setswana language resources
		It is most closely related to two other languages in the Sotho language group, Setswana and Northern Sotho (Sesotho sa Leboa or Sepedi).
		Setswana Language Setswana, the national language of Botswana along with English, is widely spoken in everyday interactions.
		In Setswana (the second language of Botswana, after English), the language of a people is denoted by the prefix "se".
	mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Setswana.html (1293 words)

	Moses Josiah Madiba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This viewpoint led to severe criticism and political controversy, yet in pursuance of his conviction and his commitment to mother tongue instruction he developed the Northern Sotho language terminology that led the Department of Bantu Education language committees to compile Sotho terminologies in other subjects as well.
		He was also secretary of the Northern Transvaal Teachers' District Association of TATA, and served in several committees of this organization.
		He was chairperson of the constitutional committee when the Northern and Southern Transvaal synods merged, and served from 1963 as first president of the new synod.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/madiba-jm.htm (819 words)

	Translation Services Company - Language Translation Agency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is the only language in Africa that takes its name from the continent, indicating its indigenous identity, if not origin and status.
		Textual translation, as an established language activity, gives the non-speakers/readers of any language access to the information and cultural context conveyed by means of that language, promoting general understanding and acceptance.
		Poems of cultural and literary importance from the various cultures of the previously disadvantaged indigenous South African languages were identified by literary experts in those languages.
	www.appliedlanguage.com /articles/translations_in_africaans_today.shtml (1124 words)

	World Report 356 -- December 2000, 356/07 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The new translation comes almost a century after the first Northern Sotho Bible was published, in 1904, and nearly 50 years after a revised version was published in 1951.
		It was made necessary by the development of the Northern Sotho language and the progress in biblical science and linguistics.
		The translation team, which was based at the University of the North, consisted of Father M Teffo, the Rev J M Ramoba and the project co-ordinator and exegete, the Rev J M Louw.
	www.biblesociety.org /wr_356/356_07.htm (344 words)

	English to Sotho Translation
		Northern Sotho is spoken by roughly 3,695,000 people in the Transvaal, south and central regions of South Africa.
		Southern Sotho is largely spoken in Lesotho and Botswana.
		The dialects Sotho, Pedi and Tswana are largely intelligible but have generally been considered separate languages.
	www.kwintessential.co.uk /translation/to/sotho.html (239 words)

	Sotho Information Center - sotho assegai
		It is most closely related to two other languages in the Sotho language group, Setswana and Northern Sotho (Sesotho sa Leboa)(Sepedi).
		By the nasal "at the same sotho tswana traditional god approximate position as" I mean that pronounced with the tongue touching the roof of the mouth at more or less the same place as when pronouncing the consonant.
		Like all other Bantu languages, linguists may say that the language is "centered sotho culture around the noun", this is due to the fact that a large number of the words in a Sesotho sotho dictionary sentence may change as soon as one of the nouns changes.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_P_-_S/Sotho.html (2705 words)

	Ndebele language resources
		Ndebele language spoken in South Africa The Ndebele people of Zimbabwe, also known as the Matabele The Sindebele language spoken in Zimbabwe, also known as Matabele This is a disambiguation page â” a list...
		The bare form typically does not occur in the language: in the country of Botswana the people are the Batswana, one person...
		Ndebele Bible Ndebele is a language spoken in certain parts of Africa such as Zimbabwe and South Africa.
	mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Ndebele.html (1471 words)

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