Sotho

Definitions of Sotho

1. noun

   a member of the Bantu people who inhabit Botswana, Lesotho, and northern South Africa and who speak the Sotho languages
   type of:

   Bantu

   a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa
2. noun

   any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho
   types:

   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

   type of:

   Bantoid language, Bantu

   a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
3. adjective

   of or relating to any of the group of Sotho languages
   “Sotho noun classifiers”