Bantu language group

Usage examples of sotho.

Hitherto it had been generally assumed that all the mining and stone-building cultures of the southern plateau were the work of Bantu-speaking peoples whose physical origins and appearance had been pretty much the same as those of their descendants living today -- Shona and Sotho, that is, of one branch or another.

Then the Sotho are thought to have gone south over the river into what is now the Transvaal in the middle of the fifteenth century, or thereabouts, and the Shona a little later.

It took me six months to discover that apart from his own southern Sotho he spoke sixteen other dialects.

First the Zulus, followed by the Swazis, then the Ndebele, Sotho and Tsonga.

Was he not the spirit of the great chief who bound Zulu with the Swazi and the Ndebele and the Tsonga and the Sotho so that they all sat on one mat in a great singing indaba?

In return for being allowed to take dictation on Sunday at the prison, I was required to take gospel tracts in Sotho and Zulu from the Assembly of God missionaries and give one to each prisoner after he had dictated his letter to me.

Within a month, local chauffeurs, cooks and houseboys had swelled the ranks and Pissy Johnson, Cunning-Spider and Atherton, as well as two guys from School House who could speak Sotho, were roped in to teach on Saturday nights.

Hymie and me to prepare a complete curriculum which I was able to translate into Sotho, Zulu, Shangaan as well as Fanagalo.