Living Person
Northern_Sotho
is
As of April 20, 2026
4 years old
approximately!
Date of Birth
(2022 ) is
Tiger
Year
* Calculated from Wikipedia data.
Accuracy is not guaranteed.
approx.Cosmic Age Calculator
Moon
approx. 58.6 years old
Mercury
approx. 18.2 years old
Venus
approx. 7.1 years old
Mars
approx. 2.3 years old
Jupiter
approx. 0.4 years old
Saturn
approx. 0.1 years old
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| Northern Sotho | |
|---|---|
| Sesotho sa Leboa | |
| Native to | South Africa |
| Region | Limpopo, Gauteng, Mpumalanga |
| Ethnicity | Pedi
Lobedu Tlôkwa |
Native speakers | 6.2 million (2022 Census) 9.1 million L2 speakers (2002) |
Early forms | Tswaniac
|
Standard forms | Pedi |
| Latin (Northern Sotho alphabet) Sotho Braille Ditema tsa Dinoko | |
| Signed Northern Sotho | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  South Africa |
| Regulated by | Pan South African Language Board |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | nso |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:nso – Pedi, Northern Sotho, Sepedibrl – Birwatwo – Tswapong |
| Glottolog | nort3233 |
S.32,301–304 | |
| Linguasphere | 99-AUT-ed |
 Geographical distribution of Northern Sotho in South Africa: proportion of the population that speaks a form of Northern Sotho at home.
0–20%
20–40%
40–60%
60–80%
80–100% | |
 Geographical distribution of Northern Sotho in South Africa: density of Northern Sotho home-language speakers
<1 /km²
1–3 /km²
3–10 /km²
10–30 /km²
30–100 /km²
100–300 /km²
300–1000 /km²
1000–3000 /km²
>3000 /km² | |
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