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Languages of Lesotho

The Linguasphere Register records 4 entries for Lesotho, spread across 3 of its ten sectors. Each row below links to the Register entry, where the sets, chains and individual languages underneath it can be opened.

4Register entries
3Sectors present
3Zones
0Language entries

0= AFRICA 5= INDO-EUROPEAN 9= TRANSAFRICAN

Register entries recorded in Lesotho

CodeEntryLevelNote
09=KALAHARIZoneCovers the Kalahari reference area (within the "wider Khoisan" hypothesis), composed of the "North-Khoisan" set 09-A …
52-ANORSK + FRYSKSetGERMANIC,.
52=GERMANICZoneCovers the "Germanic" or Norsk + Frysk set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity.
99=BANTUICZoneCovers the "broad Bantu", "narrow Bantu + Bantoid" or Isizulu + Tiv set (the central-southern section of "old …

Country placements come from the geographic data published with the Linguasphere Register. They mark where a speech community is recorded, not where a language is official. See sources and attribution.