sotho

1. 1.

   of or relating to any of the group of Sotho languages

   “Sotho noun classifiers”

Other forms of sotho

plural

sothoes·

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.

Questions about sotho

What does sotho mean?

sotho means "a member of the Bantu people who inhabit Botswana, Lesotho, and northern South Africa and who speak the Sotho languages". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sotho?

sotho has 2 syllables and divides as so-tho under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is sotho a common word?

sotho is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.