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Sotho

A large ethnic group in southern Africa, numbering about 7 million (1987) and living mainly in Botswana, Lesotho, and South Africa. The Sotho are predominantly farmers, living in small village groups. They speak a variety of closely related languages belonging to the Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo family. With English, Sotho is the official language of Lesotho.



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Under apartheid, black people were ethnicised by the State into Zulus, Xhosas, Sothos, and so forth.
The politics of identity: South Africa, story-telling, and literary ... by Chapman, Michael / Journal of Literary Studies
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