Spoken L1 Language: Southern Sotho

Comments on subclassification

Gunnink, Hilde and Natalia Chousou-Polydouri and Koen Bostoen 2023: 22-24

AES status:
not endangered
Source:
David M. Eberhard and Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig 2025
Comment:
Sotho, Southern (sot-sot) = 1 (National). Statutory national language (1996, Constitution, Article 6(1)). Statutory provincial language in Gauteng, East Cape, Free State, and North West provinces (2012, Use of Official Languages Act, No. 12, Section 4(1)).
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