Sesotho: Morphosyntactic Microvariation

Sesotho (S33), also known as Sesotho, is a Bantu language spoken in South Africa and Lesotho by 5.6 million speakers. The variety in this archive is based on the Sesotho spoken in Maseru, the capital of Lesotho.

南ソト語(またはソト語 S33)は,南アフリカおよびレソトで約560万人の人々によって話されるバントゥ系の言語です.このアーカイブに収録されているのは,レソトの首都マセルで話されることばです.


Parameters with examples

MOKOALELI, ‘Maseanakoena Amina, RIEDEL, Kristina, and FURUMOTO, Makoto (2021) Sesotho (S33), In: Lee, Seunghun J., Yuko Abe, and Daisuke Shinagaw (eds.) Descriptive materials of morphosyntactic microvariation in Bantu vol. 2: A microparametric survey of morphosyntactic microvariation in Southern Bantu languages. Tokyo: ILCAA. pp. 387-426. [doi: 10.15026/99969]


This database contains recordings of a list of sentences in Sesotho.

• All files are annotated at the word level.
• All samples below are for illustrative purposes.
For citing the archival materials, use this link.
• Original recordings that are availableupon request are in 16bit and 44.1KHz.[Audio Request Form]


ICULD ID Categories   Size Duration (approximate) Description Last modified

0017 Sesotho (audio)    92.1MB   16.8 min   Audio   2021.03.01
Sesotho (plots and metadata)    646.8MB   -   Text, Plots   2021.03.01

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