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单词 sotho
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Sothoadj.n.

Brit. /ˈsuːtuː/, U.S. /ˈsoʊdoʊ/, /ˈsoʊθoʊ/, South African English /ˈsʊtʊ/
Forms: Also Suthu, Suto, etc.
Etymology: < Sotho -sotho, black, dark brown (self-designation).
A. adj.
1. Of, relating to, or designating a group of peoples living chiefly in Botswana, Lesotho, and in the central and northern regions of South Africa, constituting a subdivision of the Bantu group which includes the Basotho, Batswana, Bapedi, and other smaller peoples.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Southern Africa > [adjective] > Bantu peoples
Xhosa1812
Morolong1822
amaXhosa1824
Zulu1824
Sotho1827
amaZulu1828
Amapondo1830
African1832
Matabele1835
knob-nosed1838
Manganja1859
Pondo1872
Bapedi1878
Ovambo1897
Tsonga1907
Venda1913
Pedi1922
Nguni1929
Lobedu1937
Mosotho1955
1827 T. Philipps Scenes & Occurr. 34 They belonged to the Ceuta tribe, a very formidable, but very distant nation.
1874 Athenæum 9 May 633/2 Herr Endemann, a missionary, contributes a valuable paper on the Sotho-Negroes of South Africa.
1905 Sc. Geogr. Mag. Dec. 630 The Sotho race comprise the Batlapin, Batalaro, Barolong, Bahurutsi, Bangwaketsi, Makalanga, and Basuto tribes.
1928 G. P. Lestrade Bantu Tribes S. Afr. I. i. 14 There has..been..intermarriage between the Bavenda and the Basotho (there was a Sotho invasion of Bavendaland).
1936 Discovery June 179/2 This midden culture, which we call Sotho, differs..in nearly every respect from our Shona or Hill culture.
1976 M. West Abantu 119 The Tswana are Sotho and live scattered over a very wide area extending beyond the Northern Cape Province and Transvaal into the Republic of Botswana.
2000 R. B. Beck Hist. S. Afr. vi. 84 Gun possession was a sign of Sotho manhood.
2. Of, relating to, or designating the language of these peoples.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [adjective] > of or relating to Bantu languages
Kaffir1588
Kongo1597
Xhosa1812
Amapondo1830
Zulu1839
Sesotho1844
Swahilian1846
Kikuyu1850
Bantu1858
Fan1861
Amandebele1872
Nyamwezi1872
Wagogo1878
Lunda1879
Luganda1882
Sotho1883
Gogo1891
Tonga1891
Chichewa1897
Ronga1897
Bemba1904
Ila1907
Tsonga1907
Meru1908
Chewa1909
Venda1913
Lingala1922
Luba1922
Pedi1922
Nyanja1923
Nguni1929
Ndebele1930
Lobedu1937
Tiv1939
Mongo1961
Siswati1964
1883 F. H. Kruger Steps to learn Sesuto Lang. (ed. 2) p. vii It would certainly have been more correct to say ‘the Sōthō language’.
1901 G. Warneck Outl. Hist. Protestant Missions ii. ii. 217 Casalis, and Mabille..the chief collaborators in the translation of the Bible into the Sotho language.
1912 Internat. Rev. Missions 1 314 I refer to the Sotho (Sesuto) Grammar of K. Endemann.
1979 Listener 25 Oct. 545/1 The text Modimo o Lerabu—‘God is Love’ in the Sotho language.
2004 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. (rev. ed.) 576/2 The political dominance of Zulu..led to extensive Zulu influence on most dialects of the Sotho and Tswana group.
B. n.
1. The family of languages spoken by these peoples; (also) spec. = Sesotho n.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [noun] > Niger-Congo > Niger-Congo proper languages > Kwa family > Bantu languages
Kaffir1820
Swahilese1833
Sesotho1846
Chagga1849
Kikuyu1849
Mitshi1854
Manganja1859
Bantu1866
Kavirondo1870
Luganda1876
Sotho1876
Fan1883
Gogo1883
Lunda1883
Nyamwezi1883
Kioko1884
Barotse1888
Ganda1891
Tumbuka1891
Chichewa1897
Bemba1902
Nyanja1902
Rwanda1902
Lingala1903
Sepedi1905
Ila1907
Lamba1907
Chewa1908
Venda1908
Ngoni1911
Munchi1913
Meru1921
Yao1924
Lozi1937
Nguni1939
Ndembu1945
Mwera1947
Sango1948
Ovambo1953
Sukuma1969
Tiv1976
1876 Sat. Rev. 18 Nov. 645/1 The Sotho is a South African Language nearly akin to the Kafir.
1915 C. Meinhof & B. Struck Introd. Study Afr. Langs. ii. 30 Sotho,..a language extending over a large part of the Transvaal, and including also the dialects spoken by the Bechwana in the Protectorate, Cape Colony, and Orange Free State, and by natives of Basutoland.
1928 Africa 1 481 In reality there are two main branches of this group, Chwana spoken in Bechwanaland and the Western Transvaal, and Suto with its main dialects.
1950 H. Gibbs Twilight 34 The south-eastern groups have five group languages, Nguni, Sotho, Venda, Tonga, and Inhambane.
1959 New Age Dec. 6 Published in Xosa, Sotho and Zulu, the journal is packed with picture stories of ‘society’ Africans who have ‘made good’.
1979 Listener 25 Oct. 545/1 Both Zulu and Sotho are used in the worship.
2009 F. Ndhlovu Politics Lang. Zimbabwe iii. 53 Sotho is one of the few minority languages that were taught in Zimbabwean schools between the 1920s and the 1960s.
2. A member of one of these peoples.In later use frequently with modifying word, as Northern Sotho, South Sotho, etc.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Southern Africa > [noun] > Bantu peoples
Xhosa1801
amaXhosa1809
Matabele1823
Amapondo1824
amaZulu1829
Bapedi1835
Basotho1835
knobnose1848
Ovambo1853
Sotho1883
Tonga1891
Ronga1899
Venda1901
Pedi1912
Mopedi1928
Ndebele1930
Lobedu1933
Tsonga1937
Pondo1950
Nguni1957
1883 F. H. Kruger Steps to learn Sesuto Lang. (ed. 2) p. vii It would be more simple to speak of the Sōthōs, the Sōthōland, etc., instead of saying,..a Mosuto, the Basuto [etc.].
1887 Academy 26 Nov. 358/2 Songs of the Sotho,..and short vocabularies of two Bantu languages spoken in the Kilimanjaro district.
1929 A. T. Bryant Olden Times in Zululand & Natal i. 3 The natives of South-Eastern Africa we distinguish as of three separate families, which we call respectively Ngu̔ni, in Zululand, the Transvaal, Natal and the Cape; Sutu̔;..and To̔nga.
1957 C. G. Seligman Races of Afr. (ed. 2) viii. 120 The Sotho [group]..includes the Southern Sotho of Lesotho..the Tswana..of Botswana and western Transvaal, and the Northern Sotho..of central and northern Transvaal.
1977 Times 7 Sept. 7/4 [The South African] Secretary for Information..gives the population..as..whites,..Coloureds,..Indians,..Zulus,..Xhosas,..Tswanas,..North Sothos,..South Sothos, [etc.].
1986 P. Maylam Hist. Afr. People 20 In the twentieth century the vast majority of African people south of the Limpopo have come to be classified under one of two broad generic labels—Nguni or Sotho.
2004 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. (rev. ed.) 576/2 Historically, the Southern Sotho are Moshoeshoe's people.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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