Sesotho Web

Links

SESOTHO LANGUAGE

South African Language Web: Sesotho
Page with introduction, basic words and phrases, links and books on Sesotho.
http://salanguages.com/ses.htm
http://www.cyberserv.co.za/users/~jako/lang/ses.htm (mirror)

On Sesotho
Sesotho blog - discussions on Sesotho and the Basotho people. Also includes language quizzes.
http://sesotho.blogspot.com/

African Languages: Sesotho
Includes introduction to language, hierarchy of the South-eastern Bantu language group. Also has a few links to related sites.
http://africanlanguages.com/sesotho/

Google: Sesotho
Search on the Internet with Google in the Sesotho language
http://www.google.com/intl/st/

Bosiu bo kgutsitseng
The Christmas song Silent Night in Sesotho
http://silentnight.web.za/translate/sesotho.htm

Erdkunde-Online: Sesotho
Sesotho words and phrases with German translations
http://www.erdkunde-online.de/sprachfuehrer/50.htm

Ethnologue report for Sesotho
Introduction and statistics on the language.
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=SSO

Friends of Lesotho: Sesotho
Introduction to language. Includes sound samples.
http://www.friendsoflesotho.org/sesotho.html

Indiana University Library: Sotho collection
List of Sotho publications available at this institution
http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/afrlg/data/0612.html

Language Portraits: Sesotho poem
Translated poem with recording of it.
http://languageportraits.net/panels/sesotho.html

Lesedi FM
Sesotho language radio station. Mainly English content.
http://www.lesedifm.co.za/

Mountain voices
Short Sesotho glossary
http://www.mountainvoices.org/l_glossary.html

See Lesotho: Culture
Description of cultural aspects of the Basotho people.
http://www.seelesotho.com/travel/info/culture.htm

Sesotho Mailing List
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/lists/sesotho.html

Southern Sotho
List of various sources on and in the language Sesotho.
http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/afrlg/data/0613.html

Travlang: Sesotho for travellers
Basic words and phrases for travelling purposes. Supports many other languages.
http://www.travlang.com/languages/sesotho/
Sesotho pronunciation guide
http://www.travlang.com/languages/sesotho/sesothopro.html

World Bridge Linguistics: Sesotho
Contains an introducation, few words in Sesotho, a short translated paragraph and a sound file with numbers read in Sesotho.
http://thor.prohosting.com/~linguist/sesotho.htm

Zulu & Sotho
Belgian website with words and phrases in Dutch, Zulu and Sesotho
http://users.skynet.be/afrika/ZuSo.html

EXAMPLES OF TEXTS IN SESOTHO

South African Coat of Arms
http://www.gov.za/symbols/coa_sotho.htm

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/sso.htm

Quotes from the Bible in Sesotho
http://www.seghea.com/pat/bible/sesotho.html

The Constitution of South Africa (Sesotho tranlsation - PDF format)
http://www.polity.org.za/html/govdocs/constitution/languages/Sesotho.pdf

LESOTHO

Government of Lesotho
Official web site for the government of the Kingdom of Lesotho.
http://www.lesotho.gov.ls/

Leo Internet
Various links and information on Lesotho and businesses in the country.
http://www.lesoff.co.za

US Embassy in Lesotho
Embassy of the United States of America in Lesotho - some information on the country.
http://www.usembassy.org.ls/

The Basotho: Baptist Mission in Lesotho and South Africa
Information on the mission and an introduction to the country and its people.
http://www.basotho.org/

SOUTH AFRICA

South African Languages Web
Information on all the eleven official languages of the Republic of South Africa. Also offers translation services in these languages.
http://www.salanguages.com

Government of South Africa
Official web site for the government of the Republic of South Africa
http://www.gov.za/

Ananzi
Search engine for South African web sites.
http://www.ananzi.co.za/

Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB)
Language board for all the eleven official languages of South Africa.
http://www.pansalb.org.za/

Linguistics Society of Southern Africa (LSSA)
http://linguistics.org.za/

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