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	Northern Sotho language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Northern Sotho language has historically been largely based on the dialect (additional info and facts about Sepedi) Sepedi.
		Northern Sotho is one of the so-called (additional info and facts about Bantu languages) Bantu languages, belonging to the (additional info and facts about Niger-Congo language family) Niger-Congo language family.
		It is most closely related to (The dialect of Sotho spoken by the Tswana people in Botswana) Setswana and (The dialect of Sotho spoken by the Basotho; an official language of Lesotho) Sesotho (Southern Sotho).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/no/northern_sotho_language.htm (199 words)

	Encyclopedia: Xhosa language
		The Benue-Congo group of languages constitutes the largest branch of the Niger_Congo language family, both in terms of sheer number of languages, of which 938 are known (not counting mere dialects), and in terms of speakers, numbering perhaps 550 million.
		Xhosa is one of the official languages of South Africa.
		The language represents the most southwestern branch of the Nguni subfamily of the Bantu languages.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Xhosa-language (1863 words)

	Northern Sotho Language - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Moreti, Itiya Di Lie (Sepedi (Northern Sotho): Literature)
		A Re Sogeng Thari (Sepedi (Northern Sotho): A Re Sogeng Thari)
		A Re Buleng Dikgoro: Gr 5 (Sepedi (Northern Sotho): A Re Buleng Dikgoro)
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /northern_sotho_language.htm (65 words)

	South Africa Seminar: Info Pages
		Today English is considered to be the language of upward mobility, and Afrikaans is the language of instruction in many schools, while the mother tongues of much of the population are the indigenous languages of Southern Africa.
		The policy affirms that "pupils have a right to be taught in a language of their choice, and states that they must inform the school which language they wish to be taught in."(1) Although the language policy seems inclusive, the inequalities built in to the current system are still staggering.
		Because the language that the students in Oakland spoke was not recognized by the U.S. as a separate and systematic language, School Board's requests were not met.
	www.stanford.edu /~jbaugh/saw/Tracy_Language_&_Ebonics.html (2626 words)

	Tswana
		In the early 1800's the Sotho were still moving slowly south and had reached to the area of modern Swaziland and almost to the Orange River on both sides of the Vaal, where the San still lived.
		The Tloka Sotho of MaNthatisi, led by her son Sekonyela, left a path of destruction as they attacked other Sotho groups, marching from Natal to Lesotho and on to the northwest of Botswana.
		Tswana (Kwena) is the national language spoken by over 80% of the Botswana population and used in schools and the media.
	cesa.imb.org /peoplegroups/tswana.htm (1367 words)

	Sotho -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Sotho speak Sotho, a Bantu language of the Niger-Congo language family; they were originally united by a common loyalty to the royal house of Mshweshwe (Moshoeshoe), of the Moketeli branch of the Kwena lineage.
		Sotho, a Bantu language, and English are the official languages.
		The Kordofanian languages are spoken in the Sudan.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9068777?tocId=9068777 (645 words)

	Go24.co.za - Travel Info - Languages
		English was considered to be the civilized language and the upper classes, even those from the Dutch stock used it in their everyday life.
		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".
	www.go24.co.za /info/languages (1512 words)

	LitNet: Taaldebat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The smaller and non-cognate languages are spoken by 6,6% of the population.
		The Nguni and Sotho languages respectively cover such a large proportion of the population that, as we have stressed in the main document (see §D.3), they are entitled to the lion’s share of the available air-time.
		To group the Nguni and Sotho languages and Afrikaans into three channels (as might be suggested by the demographic preponderance of these three languages/language groups in South Africa), and spreading English across the different channels, is not a reasonable option, for two reasons.
	www.litnet.co.za /taaldebat/sabcboard.asp (3963 words)

	Sesotho Web : General Introduction
		Sesotho, or Southern Sotho, is part of the Sotho language subgroup within the South - Eastern group of the Ntu (Bantu) language family.
		The language is spoken in the Kingdom of Lesotho as well as throughout the Republic of South Africa.
		Yet in South Africa the language is concentrated in the Free State province, the northern part of the Eastern Cape province and the south of the Gauteng province.
	www.sesotho.web.za /nalane.htm (294 words)

	KENAX - AFRICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The language of Bambara or Bamana is spoken in Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso.
		Sesotho, or Southern Sotho, is spoken in Lesotho, the Free State, the northern part of the Eastern Cape Province and the south of the Gauteng province of South Africa.
		The Somali language, one of the major languages in Africa, is spoken in Somalia/Somaliland, Kenya, Ethiopia and the Republic of Djibouti.
	kenax.hypermart.net /_africa.html (3072 words)

	Annexure A
		No language should be excluded from the University campus as the University seeks to support the progressive elimination of language barriers to participation in the educational, cultural, social and economic life of the institution.
		Sesotho is the home language of 11.3% of the student population with 32.1% speaking a language from the Sotho language family.
		The language policy research conducted by the University is unequivocal in stressing the need for courses that enable the acquisition by students of full spoken and written competence in English.
	www.wits.ac.za /tee/annexure_a.htm (3190 words)

	Mpe, Phaswane: Language policy and African language publishing in South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This is not surprising, since fls have mostly come to see their languages, in education, as agents of separatist ideology that our new dispensation cannot afford to promote.
		Bantu Education used first languages as the medium of instruction, while simultaneously narrowing the scope of what could be taught in schools.
		Thus African language publishing was taken up by educational publishers who could not afford to upset the government, on which they depended for curriculum design and prescription criteria as well as book purchasing.
	apm.brookes.ac.uk /sulaiman/bellagio/newsletter25/mpe.htm (1068 words)

	Ethnologue: South Africa
		Of those, 27 are living languages, 1 is a second language without mother tongue speakers, and 3 are extinct.
		A language of secondary education and used on the radio and in newspapers.
		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)

	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.
		There is a fairly large amount of mutual intelligibility between all three; a speaker of one of the three languages is usually able to understand most of what a speaker of one of the others is saying.
	africanlanguages.com /northern_sotho (1782 words)

	U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - South Africa: Background
		Multilingualism is described as the dynamic process, which empowers the speakers of different languages to convey messages in a language or languages of their own choice, as well as displaying sensitivity for the need of different communities to express themselves in their own vernacular.
		Their language, as the other African languages, is a tonal language, governed by the nouns, which dominate in the sentences.
		The pervasiveness of code-switching (the mixing of English and another indigenous language) is perhaps the strongest indication of the impact of English.
	www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=32&TID=2 (2757 words)

	Fortune H-M
		Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa.
		Introduction to the phonology of the Bantu languages;.
		Language and religious language; a study in the dynamics of translation.
	web.uflib.ufl.edu /cm/africana/fortune2.htm (3680 words)

	Sotho Font, Sotho Kamus, Sotho OCR, Sotho Referensi, Sotho Sistim, Sotho Software - Windows, Sotho Software - Mac,
		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 /Indonesian/Languages/Sotho.htm (216 words)

	DEPARTMENT OF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Department of Linguistics and Southern African Languages is a vibrant and fast-growing Department which comprises three Sections: African Languages and Literatures, Afrikaans and Netherlandic Studies and, thirdly, Linguistics.
		The language myth in Western Culture (inaugural conference of the International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and Communication.) Goldsmiths College, London.
		Ms P Maseko was involved in a project that aims to assist the Western Cape Language Committee in the promotion and implementation of its language policy, especially in regard to the development of Xhosa in the province.
	web.uct.ac.za /depts/dri/resrep/resrep00/lsal00.html (2077 words)

	On Sesotho: Litlhapa...
		Litlhapa means insults, or expletives, or pejorative language.
		Everybody knows, they are the first thin we learn in a new language.
		And, I've noticed, the better you speak and control a language, the less its litlhapa are funny.
	sesotho.blogspot.com /2004/10/litlhapa.html (271 words)

	Bill promotes use of S. Africa's native languages - 10/02/03
		But when the document arrived, it was in English and Afrikaans, languages that European settlers brought to South Africa in the 17th century, and today are but two of the country's 11 official tongues.
		In the first phase, emphasis would be put on six vernaculars: Venda, Tsonga, English, Afrikaans, one language from the Nguni family of languages (which includes Ndebele, Xhosa, Zulu and Swati), and one from the Sotho language family (which includes Sotho, Pedi and Tswana).
		According to research publicized last year by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 250 African languages could be lost forever because of their limited use; and of the 1,400 languages used by the continent's 700 million people, at least 500 are hurtling down the road to decline.
	www.detnews.com /2003/nation/0310/02/a13-286739.htm (720 words)

	South African Languages \| Lobedu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.htm (93 words)

	Sotho language group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sotho language group is a group of three closely related Bantu languages spoken in Southern Africa including Setswana, Sesotho, and Sesotho sa Leboa.
		These languages may be related to Lozi (or Serotse, as Basotho call it) spoken in Zambia.
		This page was last modified 21:02, 12 August 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sotho_language_group (74 words)

	Armoria patriæ - South Africa (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The /Xam language is the only Bushman language recorded as having been spoken south of the Orange or Gariep River, and therefore represents the earliest known human inhabitants of the region from which sprang the modern South African state.
		However, it is also the scientific name of the language group which covers Central and Southern Africa from the Eastern Cape northwards to both Cameroon and Kenya, and extends into Nigeria’s south-easternmost parts, where the Republic of Biafra existed briefly in the 1960s.
		The Nguni languages and South Sotho show a high degree of assimilation of Khoikhoi and Bushman language, while the ancestry of these peoples (and also of the other Sotho peoples) also shows a high degree of intermarriage between Bantu-speakers and the indigenous South Africans.
	www.geocities.com /landswapen/SA2000E.html (3775 words)

	languagehat.com: April 2004 Archives
		The Tensor has a post in which he discusses varying ways languages have of indicating questions, in both writing and speech; he discusses Japanese and Armenian, and the first two comments are about Latin and Klingon.
		Portuguese was their status language which was also used for worship; Malay was their language of trade, and most Topasses spoke, as their mother-tongue, a local language of Flores or Timor.
		While there are a number of specialized journals that cater to the study of a given language or language family, few journals publish for a broad readership on a range of different languages.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/2004_04.php (12285 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ntshabile, C.M. Language Variation in the Botswana speech community and its impact on children's education: 1-141.
		In, Language Matters: Studies in the languages of Southern Africa.
		Dr Russell Kaschula was invited by the Law, Race and Gender Unit at UCT to run a workshop on cross-cultural communication in the courtroom in South Africa.
	web.uct.ac.za /depts/dri/resrep/resrep99/lsal99.html (1581 words)

	On Sesotho: SABC-4
		The SABC says an amount of R200 million has been budgeted for the two regional television channels which the broadcaster plans to launch next year.
		The channels, to be called SABC 4 and SABC 5, will supplement the existing channels in terms of the language spread.
		SABC 5 will serve mostly Nguni languages, while SABC 4 will accommodate Sesotho language groups.
	sesotho.blogspot.com /2004/10/sabc-4.html (83 words)

	Sotho Translation Service - English to Sotho Translators (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		We realise that you still want high quality Sotho translation done on time and at a reasonable price.
		Professional translators whose native language is Sotho perform our English to Sotho translation.
		Professional translators whose native language is English and have fluent Sotho perform our Sotho to English translation.
	www.appliedlanguage.com /languages/sotho_translation.shtml (265 words)

	Khadi Fall - nouvelle
		y desire to express myself in Sotho was so strong that every time I picked up a pen to fix any idea or any memory in writing, I felt I had to do it in Sotho, the language of my childhood, the language of my adolescence.
		Yet even then I had a lot of trouble writing in Sotho; my failing memory often refused to reconstruct in the words and speech of Sotho certain long-ago images which seemed to be part daydream.
		However, it had been nearly twenty years since I had spoken Wolof, a language which I had not studied as a written subject in the way that I had studied the written language of Sotho.
	www.arts.uwa.edu.au /AFLIT/Ineditfall2.html (4993 words)

	Africana Librarians Council
		Instead of establishing a number for Ndebele as a Sotho language in accordance with the usual standard sources, such as Ethnologue and the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee is now proposing to place Ndebele within the Nguni group, following the advice of several correspondents in South Africa.
		It dealt only with language and literary headings, whereas Plantz had expected a wider variety of headings such as politically oriented headings, e.g., battles and events.
		Caruso raised the question what could be done about the lack of African language skills among Africana catalogers and was wondering if African language training for catalogers could be part of a Title VI proposal.
	www.loc.gov /rr/amed/afs/alc/catm199.html (1495 words)

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