Sepedi, also called Northern Sotho or Sesotho sa Leboa, is a Bantu language of the Sotho-Tswana group and one of South Africa's official languages. It is spoken mainly in Limpopo province, with substantial numbers in Gauteng and Mpumalanga, and native speakers are estimated at over four million. The names need a word of care: strictly, Sepedi is the dialect of the Pedi people on which the written standard is based, while Sesotho sa Leboa covers the wider cluster of related dialects, though in practice the two names are used interchangeably. The language is written in the Latin alphabet and is closely related to Setswana and Sesotho, with considerable mutual intelligibility across the Sotho-Tswana group.
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