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Technical information about ISO 639 language code st
The table below provides technical details for the Sotho, Southern language, designated by the st
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
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.
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Sotho, Southern speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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