Language Info

Southern Sotho written in Latin script

Below you'll find all the characters used to write this language and all the countries where this language is used.

Standard Characters

The minimal characters required for this language

Auxiliary Characters

Additional letters (beyond the minimal set) used in foreign or technical words found in typical magazines, newspapers, etc..

Punctuation Characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning

Unicode Blocks

Southern Sotho uses characters from the following Unicode blocks

    Countries

    The worldwide literate language population for Southern Sotho is 6,251,365 people across 2 countries.

    South Africa

    4,332,486 people
    7.90% literate in Southern Sotho

    Lesotho

    1,918,879 people
    98.00% literate in Southern Sotho

    References

    Our data is sourced from a number of places, and we want to give them credit here. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes that support the language.

    1. Unicode CLDR
    2. CLDR Exemplar Characters