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Sesotho is alternatively known as Southern Sesotho, Sotho, or Southern Sotho. It is a Bantu language and a member of the Niger-Congo family of languages which is mainly spoken in South Africa. Sesotho is regarded as the national language of Lesotho; it also serves as an official language for South Africa.

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• Sesotho is spoken by nearly 4.2 million people living in Lesotho, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Namibia. 

• Sesotho is an agglutinative language. It employs a large number of affixes along with derivational and inflexional rules in the process of creating complete words.

• Sesotho is very closely related with three other major languages belonging to the Sotho-Tswana group of languages. They are Sesotho sa Leboa, Setswana and Silozi. These languages in turn have close relations with other Southern Bantu group of languages like Inhambane, Tshivenḓa, Nguni, and Xitsonga.

• The writing system of Sesotho was first developed by French missionaries Thomas Arbousset, Constant Gosselin and Eugene Casalis who were a part of the Paris Evangelical Mission and reached Lesotho in 1833. 

• Eugene Casalis published the first Sesotho grammar book - “Etudes sur la Langue Sechuana” in 1841.

• A remarkable aspect of Standard Sesotho is that it has almost negligible dialectical variation. Minor degrees of lexical variations can be found within Lesotho and between the large urban townships located in northern areas like Soweto. These variations have come about as a result of the influence of neighboring languages. 

• Sesotho contains around 9 vowel phonemes and 39 consonants. It is based on an unusual sound system that includes click consonants, ejective consonants, no prenasalized consonants, an uvular trill, many affricate consonants, and a rare type of vowel-height harmony. 

• Sesotho also involves complex transformation of sounds under the influence of other sounds which are at times, invisible. Such transformations frequently result in the alteration of the phones of words.

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