Sesotho, also called Southern Sotho, is a Bantu language of the Sotho-Tswana group. It is the national language of Lesotho, where it is official alongside English, and one of South Africa's official languages, spoken widely in the Free State and around Johannesburg. First-language speakers number around 5.6 million, with several million more using it as a second language. Sesotho is tonal and written in the Latin alphabet, though with a quirk: Lesotho and South Africa use different orthographies for the same language, so the same word can be spelled two ways depending on the country. The language has a notable literary history; Thomas Mofolo's novel Chaka, written in Sesotho early in the twentieth century, became a classic of African literature and has been widely translated.
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