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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
sotho is a noun and adjective meaning "a member of the Bantu people who inhabit Botswana, Lesotho, and northern South Africa and who speak the Sotho languages". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a member of the Bantu people who inhabit Botswana, Lesotho, and northern South Africa and who speak the Sotho languages
any of the mutually intelligible southern Bantu languages of the Sotho in Botswana and South Africa and Lesotho
of or relating to any of the group of Sotho languages
“Sotho noun classifiers”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sotho come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.