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Moshoeshoe
Moshoeshoe or Moshweshwe , c.1786-1870, Sotho king. A remarkable leader, he was a superior military tactician and was able to unite several small groups into the Sotho nation. By the mid-1820s he ruled approximately 25,000 citizens. He permitted Christian missions and sought British aid against ... Read more
Lesotho
Lesotho , officially Kingdom of Lesotho, kingdom (2005 est. pop. 1,867,000), 11,720 sq mi (30,355 sq km), S Africa. It is an enclave within the Republic of South Africa. Maseru is the capital and largest city. Land and People The Drakensberg range occupies the eastern part of the country... Read more
Bantu
Bantu , ethnic and linguistic group of Africa, numbering about 120 million. The Bantu inhabit most of the continent S of the Congo River except the extreme southwest. The classification is primarily linguistic, and there are almost a hundred Bantu languages, including Luganda, Zulu, and Swahili. Few... Read more
Bantu languages
Bantu languages group of African languages forming a subdivision of the Benue-Niger division of the Niger-Congo branch of the Niger-Kordofanian language family (see African languages ). Bantu contains hundreds of languages that are spoken by 120 million Africans in the Congo Basin, Angola, the Rep... Read more
Transvaal
Transvaal , former province, NE South Africa. With the new constitution of 1994, it was divided into Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Veereeniging (now Gauteng), and part of North West prov. The Transvaal was bounded on the N and W by the L... Read more
Zululand
Zululand , historic region and home of the Zulus, c.10,000 sq mi (25,900 sq km), NE KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Zululand is bordered by the Indian Ocean on the east, by Mozambique on the north, and by Swaziland on the west. The terrain rises from a low coastal plain to the foothills of the Drakensb... Read more
South Africa
South Africa Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. It borders on the Atlantic Ocean in the west, on Namibia in the northwest, on Botswana and Zimbabwe in the north, on Mozambique and Swaziland i... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Sotho"

Sotho
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures Sotho PRONUNCIATION: SOH-toh LOCATION: Lesotho; South Africa POPULATION...million in South Africa; 1.9 million in Lesotho LANGUAGE: Sotho language, or Sesotho RELIGION: Traditional beliefs (worship of Modimo); Christianity 1 • INTRODUCTION The Sotho people are an ethnic group living in Lesotho and ... Read more
Lesotho
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...Constitutional monarchy ethnic groups: Sotho 99% languages: Sesotho and English (both...holds all land in Lesotho, in trust for the Sotho nation. Altitude greatly affects Lesotho...19th-century tribal wars dispersed the Sotho. In the 1820s, Moshoeshoe I formed a Sotho... Read more
Moshoeshoe
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition or Moshweshwe , c.1786-1870, Sotho king. A remarkable leader, he was a superior...to unite several small groups into the Sotho nation. By the mid-1820s he ruled approximately...maintaining the autonomy of the 125,000 Sotho. Moshoeshoe is considered the founding... Read more
South Africa
Encyclopedia entry from: World Press Encyclopedia ...43,586,097 Language(s): Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu Literacy rate: 81...African languages, especially Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele, Pedi, Tsonga, Sotho, Swazi, and Tswana. South Africa has 11 recognized languages... Read more
Swaziland
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...clan groups are Nguni; the remainder are Sotho and Tsonga. These groups have intermarried...Under Sobhuza's leadership, the Nguni and Sotho peoples as well as remnant San groups were...covered with thatch bound with plaited ropes. Sotho huts, which have pointed, detachable roofs... Read more
Moshweshwe
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Mokhachane, was head of the Bamokoteli, a Sotho-speaking subclan, which paid tribute to...he was concerned about the future of the Sotho-speaking peoples of the plateau above the...the east, blowing over the lands of the Sotho and leaving desolation in their wake. The... Read more
Transvaal
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...Province , Mpumalanga, Gauteng , and North-West Province (now Limpopo ). The indigenous population are the Bantu-speaking Venda and Sotho peoples. In the Great Trek (1836), the Boers crossed the River Vaal and began to settle the region. In 1857, the South African... Read more
Swazis
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...first Swazi king, Ngwane II, settled southeast of modern-day Swaziland. His grandson, Sobhuza I, unified the resident Nguni and Sotho people within a central government. Swaziland became a British protectorate following the Anglo-Boer War of 1899 – 1902... Read more
Thomas Mofolo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...missionaries encouraged him to write what was to become the first novel in Southern Sotho, Moeti oa bochabela (1907; The Traveler of the East ). The edifying story of a young Sotho chieftain's conversion to Christianity, it is cleverly interwoven with traditional... Read more
SOUTH AFRICAN ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...of the two official languages; in that year, nine indigenous languages became official: Ndebele, Pedi, Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, and Zulu. In the following discussion, South African English focuses primarily on... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "Sotho"

Sotho
Book article from: Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes Sotho • Bantu , stand-to • Manawatu , Vanuatu •passe-partout • gentoo • lean-to •pistou • into , thereinto •manitou • onto • Motu • Basotho , Hutu, Lesotho, Mobutu, Sotho, tutu • hereunto , thereunto, unto •surtout Read more
Lebowa
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names Lebowa, Limpopo/South Africa A former self‐governing national state for the northern Sotho people established in 1972. Its name simply means ‘northern’. It was reincorporated into South Africa in 1994. Read more
Bela‐Bela
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names Bela‐Bela, Limpopo/South Africa Warmbad Previously Warmbad ‘Warm Baths’, the present name was adopted in 2002 and is a Sotho word meaning ‘Hot Springs’ or ‘Boiling Place’ (‘Bubble Bubble’). Read more
Gauteng
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names ...Witwatersrand‐Vereeniging A province renamed in 1995. Its present name, ‘City of Gold’, is derived from a Sotho‐Tswana version of eRawutini ‘City of Gold’ which is the Xhosa name for Johannesburg, the provincial capital... Read more
thereunto
Book article from: Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes ...x2022;passe-partout • gentoo • lean-to •pistou • into , thereinto •manitou • onto • Motu • Basotho , Hutu, Lesotho, Mobutu, Sotho, tutu • hereunto , thereunto, unto •surtout Read more
Basotho
Book article from: Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes ...x2022;passe-partout • gentoo • lean-to •pistou • into , thereinto •manitou • onto • Motu • Basotho , Hutu, Lesotho, Mobutu, Sotho, tutu • hereunto , thereunto, unto •surtout Read more
manitou
Book article from: Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes ...x2022;passe-partout • gentoo • lean-to •pistou • into , thereinto •manitou • onto • Motu • Basotho , Hutu, Lesotho, Mobutu, Sotho, tutu • hereunto , thereunto, unto •surtout Read more
Lesotho
Book article from: Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes ...x2022;passe-partout • gentoo • lean-to •pistou • into , thereinto •manitou • onto • Motu • Basotho , Hutu, Lesotho, Mobutu, Sotho, tutu • hereunto , thereunto, unto •surtout Read more
Vanuatu
Book article from: Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes ...x2022;passe-partout • gentoo • lean-to •pistou • into , thereinto •manitou • onto • Motu • Basotho , Hutu, Lesotho, Mobutu, Sotho, tutu • hereunto , thereunto, unto •surtout Read more
into
Book article from: Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes ...x2022;passe-partout • gentoo • lean-to •pistou • into , thereinto •manitou • onto • Motu • Basotho , Hutu, Lesotho, Mobutu, Sotho, tutu • hereunto , thereunto, unto •surtout Read more

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Die hierargiese ontwikkeling en grammatiese kenmerke van die Noord-Sotho werkwoordstam -ba.(The hierarchical development and grammatical features of the Northern Sotho verb stem -ba)
Magazine article from: Literator; 11/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...sinchroniese grammatiese kenmerke van die Noord-Sotho werkwoordstam -ba te beskryf, asook om...geselekteerde voorbeelde is aan drie Noord-Sotho-moedertaalsprekers voorgele. Hierdie persone...hulle akademiese kwalifikasies in Noord-Sotho taalkunde en letterkunde verwerf het. Die... Read more
The technique of flashback in selected Northern Sotho literary texts.
Magazine article from: Literator; 8/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...technique of flashback in selected Northern Sotho literary texts This article aims at investigating...technique of flashback in selected Northern Sotho literary texts. Five kinds of flashback...Terugflitse as tegniek In geselekteerde Noord-Sotho literere tekste Die doel van hierdie artikel... Read more
Post-traumatic stress disorder and exposure to violence among Venda and Northern Sotho adolescents.(RESEARCH)(Report)
Magazine article from: Health SA Gesondheid; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...adolescents as a total group (Venda- and Northern Sotho-speaking), as well as the exposure levels...comprised of 186 Venda and 151 Northern Sotho adolescents, who completed the Child PTSD...rate of victimisation than the Northern Sotho adolescents. A strong correlation was found... Read more
On the development of a tagset for Northern Sotho with special reference to the issue of standardisation/Die ontwikkeling van 'n stel annoteringsmerkers vir Noord-Sotho, met spesiale verwysing na standaardiseringsaangeleenthede.(Report)
Magazine article from: Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studiess; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...in the design of the tagset for Northern Sotho. It is explained why this proposed tagset...the morphological complexity of Northern Sotho at the tagging level, a multilevel annotation...tagging (POS-tagging) tagset: Northern Sotho Opsomming Tot dusver was die gebruik van... Read more
Sotho beaded dolls.
Magazine article from: Arts & Activities; 1/1/2004; ; 570 words ; When a woman in the United States marries she carries a bouquet of flowers. In the Sotho community of South Africa, when a woman marries she carries beaded doll. The dolls are coned shaped and do not have arms or legs... Read more
Verbal extension sequencing: an examination from a computational perspective/Werkwoordekstensleopeenvolging: 'n ondersoek vanuit 'n rekenaarmatige perspektief.(Report)
Magazine article from: Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...alternations of these extensions for Northern Sotho, garnered from literature research, lexicographic...language extension sequencing rules: Northern Sotho verbs trivial analysis: multiple verbal...alternasies van hierdie ekstensies in Noord-Sotho weerspieel. Dit is bekom deur literatuurnavorsing... Read more
South Africa.
Magazine article from: Country Reports; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...43.1 million Climate: Temperate South coast; tropical northeast. Languages: Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Pedi, English, Tswana, Sotho, Tsonga, Swati, Venda, Ndebele Total Area: 1,221,037 square kilometres Ethnic Groups: 77% black, 10% white (of which 60% Afrikaner... Read more
Travel and Tourism in South Africa.(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Country Reports; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...43.1 million Climate: Temperate South coast; tropical northeast. Languages: Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Pedi, English, Tswana, Sotho, Tsonga, Swati, Venda, Ndebele Total Area: 1,221,037 square kilometres Ethnic Groups: 77% black, 10% white (of which 60% Afrikaner... Read more
Editorial comments/Redaksionele kommentaar.
Magazine article from: Health SA Gesondheid; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...exposure levels amongst Venda and Northern Sotho adolescents to violence, and consequences...exposed to more victimisation than Northern Sotho adolescents and that the degree of exposure...Bach die blootstelling van Venda- en Noord-Sotho-adolossente aan geweld, en die gevolge... Read more
Constance Stuart Larrabee. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 1/1/1996; ; 668 words ; ...known for two distinct bodies of work: her black and white prints of South Africa's tribal people (Zulu, Ndebele, Lovedu, Swazi, Sotho, Transkei, and Bushmen) - produced in the '30s and '40s - and her Life magazine-style photo-journalism in which she documented... Read more