Sotho

So·tho  (st, st)

n. pl. Sotho or So·thos

1.

a. A group of closely related Bantu languages, including Tswana, spoken in southern Africa.

b. Any of these languages.

2. A member of a Sotho-speaking people.

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Sotho [ˈsuːtuː ˈsəʊtəʊ]

n

1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -tho, -thos a member of a large grouping of Negroid peoples of southern Africa, living chiefly in Botswana, South Africa, and Lesotho

2. (Linguistics / Languages) the group of mutually intelligible languages of this people, including Lesotho, Tswana, and Pedi. It belongs to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family

3. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -tho, -thos South African a member of the Basotho people; a Mosotho

4. (Linguistics / Languages) South African the dialect of Sotho spoken by the Basotho; Sesotho. It is an official language of Lesotho along with English Former name (for senses 3, 4) Basuto

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Sotho - a member of the Bantu people who inhabit Botswana, Lesotho, and northern South Africa and who speak the Sotho languages Botswana, Republic of Botswana - a landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960s Basutoland, Kingdom of Lesotho, Lesotho - a landlocked constitutional monarchy in southern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966 Republic of South Africa, South Africa - a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers) Bantu - a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa
	2.	Sotho - any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho Bantoid language, Bantu - a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent Basuto, Sesotho - the dialect of Sotho spoken by the Basotho; an official language of Lesotho Sechuana, Setswana, Tswana - the dialect of Sotho spoken by the Tswana in Botswana
Adj.	1.	Sotho - of or relating to any of the group of Sotho languages; "Sotho noun classifiers"