History
The original orthography was developed in the early 19th century by missionaries from the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society to aid in translating the Bible. The earliest orthographies had an obvious French bias, which still appears in the writing of the approximants /j/ and /w/ in the modern Lesotho variant.
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