Language code: st
Technical information about ISO 639 language code st
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The table below provides technical details for the Sotho, Southern language, designated by the st code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Sotho, Southern Native Sesotho |
| Family | Bantu |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | KwenaFokengTlokwaTaung |
| Related languages | Northern SothoTswanaLoziKgalagadi |
| Key facts | Employs about 15 noun classes, a hallmark of Bantu grammarTone is phonemic and marks both lexical meaning and grammatical relationsAgglutinative morphology gives long verb forms with multiple affixes agreeing for subject, object and moodFirst comprehensive Sesotho grammar was compiled by missionary Eugène Casalis in the 1840sConsonant inventory includes prenasalized, aspirated and ejective stops, making rich consonant clusters possible |
| Sample phrase | Lumela, o phela joang? |
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Southern Sotho, also known as Sesotho, belongs to the Niger-Congo language family, specifically within the Bantu subgroup. It is one of the official languages of Lesotho and South Africa. Southern Sotho is written using the Latin script (Sesotho alphabet). It is estimated that there are around 13 million speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Sotho, Southern speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ