Pedi, also called Northern Sotho or Sepedi, is a Bantu language of the Sotho-Tswana group and one of South Africa's official languages. Its speakers, numbering around 4.6 million by home-language counts, live mainly in Limpopo province in the northeast of the country, with sizeable numbers in Gauteng. The naming is tangled: strictly speaking, Sepedi is the dialect of the Pedi people on which the written standard was largely based, while Northern Sotho is the broader language taking in some 30 dialects, but the South African constitution uses Sepedi as the official name. It is written in the Latin alphabet and used in schooling, broadcasting and government publications. Northern Sotho is related to Sesotho and Setswana, and speakers of the three follow one another readily.
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