Northern Sotho Language
Northern Sotho is a designation in English, rendered officially and among indigenous speakers as Sesotho sa Leboa. Also confusingly known by the name of its major variety, "Pedi" or "Sepedi", Northern Sotho is a designated official language of South Africa, spoken by 4,208,980 people (2001 Census) in the provinces of Gauteng, Limpopo and Mpumalanga.
Urban varieties of Pedi have acquired clicks in an ongoing process of the spread of such sounds from Nguni languages.
Read more about Northern Sotho Language: Classification, Confusion of Nomenclature With Sepedi, Other Varieties of Northern Sotho
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