索托語索托語Sesotho),又譯「蘇陀語」,是南非11種官方語言之一,還是賴索托的國語,屬於班圖語支。它是一種黏著語,用許多的詞綴、派生詞以及屈折變化來構成句子。這種語言有39個輔音,9個元音。

索托語
Sesotho
發音sɪ̀sʊ́tʰʊ̀
母語國家和地區 賴索托
 南非
族群索托人
母語使用人數
560萬 (2001–2011)[1]
789萬人作為第二語言 (2002)[2]
語系
文字拉丁字母(索托字母)
索托盲文英語Sotho Braille
官方地位
作為官方語言 賴索托
 南非
 辛巴威
管理機構泛南非語言委員會(Pan South African Language Board)
語言代碼
ISO 639-1st
ISO 639-2sot
ISO 639-3sot
Glottologsout2807[3]
格思里代碼S.33[4]
語言瞭望站99-AUT-ee incl. varieties 99-AUT-eea to 99-AUT-eee

  0–20%
  20–40%
  40–60%
  60–80%
  80–100%

參考文獻

  • Batibo, H. M., Moilwa, J., and Mosaka N. 1997. The historical implications of the linguistic relationship between Makua and Sotho languages. In PULA Journal of African Studies, vol. 11, no. 1
  • Doke, C. M., and Mofokeng, S. M. 1974. Textbook of Southern Sotho Grammar. Cape Town: Longman Southern Africa, 3rd. impression. ISBN 0-582-61700-6.
  • Ntaoleng, B. S. 2004. Sociolinguistic variation in spoken and written Sesotho: A case study of speech varieties in Qwaqwa. M.A. thesis. University of South Africa.
  • Tšiu, W. M. 2001. Basotho family odes (Diboko) and oral tradition. M.A. thesis. University of South Africa

參考資料

  1. ^ 索托語於《民族語》的連結(第18版,2015年)
  2. ^ Webb, Vic. 2002. "Language in South Africa: the role of language in national transformation, reconstruction and development." Impact: Studies in language and society, 14:78
  3. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (編). Southern Sotho. Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. 2016. 
  4. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online