Language · Atlantic-Congo
Northern Sotho
Sepedi – its own name
Official or co-official in 1 country. Listed in 1 country.
Endangerment: not endangered according to Glottolog (AES, CC BY 4.0)
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 5.7 million
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Latin
Place in the family tree
- Atlantic-Congo
- Volta-Congo
- Benue-Congo
- Bantoid
- Southern Bantoid
- Bantu
- East Bantu
- Southern Bantu
- Nuclear Southern Bantu
- Dimsuffix Southern Bantu
- Sotho-Tswana (S.30)
- Northern Sotho
- Sepedic
- Northern Sotho
Nodes of the Glottolog tree (Glottolog, CC BY 4.0).
Where it is spoken
- Co-official 1
Co-official
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South Africa
9.4%
5.7 million
The most common home language in Limpopo.
Legal basis: Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Act, 2023 (Act No. 3 of 2023) – Government Gazette No. 49041, 27 July 2023, s. 1