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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...Africa; 1.9 million in Lesotho LANGUAGE: Sotho language, or Sesotho RELIGION: Traditional...Christianity 1 • INTRODUCTION The Sotho people are an ethnic group living in Lesotho...
Pedi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...Bapedi, Basotho, Marota, Northern Sotho Orientation Identification. "Pedi...people speaking various dialects of the Sotho language who live in the northern Transvaal...Africa. More recently, the term "Northern Sotho" has replaced "Pedi" to characterize...
Lesotho
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...population is comprised almost totally of the Sotho people. About 80% are Christian, and...Lesotho is held by the king in trust for the Sotho nation and is apportioned on his behalf by local chiefs; non-Sotho may not hold land. Only a tenth of Lesotho...
Ndebele
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...became absorbed into their Northern-Sotho-speaking neighbors. The Southern Ndebele...completely integrated with neighboring Sotho-speaking communities. Location. The...are fluent in the neighboring Northern Sotho language called Sepedi, as well as Afrikaans...
Swaziland
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...clan groups are Nguni; the remainder are Sotho and Tsonga. These groups have intermarried...Sobhuza's leadership, the Nguni and Sotho peoples as well as remnant San groups were...with thatch bound with plaited ropes. Sotho huts, which have pointed, detachable...
Venda
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement ...well as areas inhabited by the Northern Sotho. To the north is the Limpopo River, the...the Venda had borrowed words from their Sotho neighbors. However, linguistic and archaeological...where they mixed with an early proto-Sotho language. The language makes much use...
Moshoeshoe
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Moshoeshoe 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...
Moshweshwe
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Mokhachane, was head of the Bamokoteli, a Sotho-speaking subclan, which paid tribute...he was concerned about the future of the Sotho-speaking peoples of the plateau above...the east, blowing over the lands of the Sotho and leaving desolation in their wake...
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...
South Africa
Encyclopedia entry from: World Press Encyclopedia ...097 Language(s): Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu Literacy rate...languages, especially Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele, Pedi, Tsonga, Sotho, Swazi, and Tswana. South Africa has 11 recognized languages...

Dictionary entries related to "Sotho"

Lesotho
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...built a stronghold on Thaba Bosigo and unified the Sotho (Basuto). After fighting both Boers and British...Christian 8.0%; tribal 6.2% Ethnic Groups: Sotho 99.7% Languages: Sotho, English (both official) International Organizations...
Philip, John
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...population prepared the ground for the 1828 Ordinance 50 which extended civil rights to all races. He was responsible for bringing the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society to the Sotho people and the American Board of Missionaries to the Zulus.

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Locative trigrams in Northern Sotho, preceded by analyses of formative bigrams *.
Magazine article from: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; Abstract In Northern Sotho one of the strategies to express locality...order locative n-grams exist in Northern Sotho. As the answer was found to be positive...The expression of locality in Northern Sotho is an often-discussed and well-researched...
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: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies; 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...hulle akademiese kwalifikasies in Noord-Sotho taalkunde en letterkunde verwerf het...
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 studies; 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...
The technique of flashback in selected Northern Sotho literary texts.
Magazine article from: Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies; 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...
LAY PROTOTYPES OF ILLNESS AMONG A NORTHERN SOTHO COMMUNITY IN SOUTH AFRICA
Magazine article from: Social Behavior and Personality; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...terminology and lay prototypes among a Northern Sotho community in South Africa. The sample...sorting of disease terms included 80 Northern Sotho-speaking third-year students from the...Keywords: lay prototypes, illness, Northern Sotho, South Africa Understanding the layperson...
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 ; ...as a total group (Venda- and Northern Sotho-speaking), as well as the exposure...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...
Sotho beaded dolls.
Magazine article from: Arts & Activities; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ 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...
Locative trigrams in Northern Sotho, preceded by analyses of formative bigrams *.(4. An analysis of the locative trigrams ka mo ga and ka mo go, preceded by a discussion of the bigram ka mo)
Magazine article from: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Categories A and B, the combination ka mo is NOT regarded as representing a combination of two locative particles here. Northern Sotho grammarians are not clear as to what the status of ka is in examples such as (60) to (63), but it is generally accepted...
Sources of variance and reliability of objectively monitored physical activity in rural and urban Northern Sotho-speaking blacks.(ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE)(Report)
Magazine article from: South African Journal of Sports Medicine; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...hour and 4-day monitoring period. Design. A convenience sample of rural (N=31) and urban (N=30) adult, Northern Sotho-speaking blacks was recruited. Physical activity was assessed for 8 consecutive days using a uni-axial accelerometer...
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...