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Language code: sot

Technical information about ISO 639 language code sot

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The table below provides technical details for the Southern Sotho language, designated by the sot code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

sot

Name

Official

Southern Sotho

Native

Sesotho

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
KwenaTaungTlôkwa
Related languages
Northern SothoTswanaLozi
Key facts
Has nine contrastive vowels with both short and long formsEmploys an 18-class noun system characteristic of Bantu languagesStandard orthography is Latin-based and normally omits tone marks, though linguists add them in academic workVerb morphology allows several derivational extensions (causative, applicative, passive, reciprocal) to stack within one verbThe first complete Sesotho Bible was published in 1878, shaping later written standards
Sample phrase

Lumela, o phela joang?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Southern Sotho language, identified by the code sot, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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