Sesotho (Southern Sotho) is one of the official languages of South Africa, and is the primary official language of Lesotho, where it is widely spoken. In South Africa, there are 3,555,186 (7.93 %) first language speakers [2001 census data].

Sesotho is most closely related to two other languages in the Sotho language group, Setswana and Sesotho sa Leboa (Northern Sotho)

Sesotho language family tree.

Online dictionaries / Electronic dictionaries

BUKANTSWE: Electronic Sesotho-English dictionary BUKANTSWE is a computer program that can be downloaded and be used as a dictionary between English and Sesotho. Created by Jako Olivier.

Books

South African Oxford Multilingual Primary Dictionary (Sotho) (OUPSA)
[ Buy from Kalahari.net | Publisher link ]

• Web-lingo South African based online translation service offering general and technical translations, development of multilingual websites, and software localisation services.
• Folio Translation Consultants "specialising in African, major European and Asian languages".
• Jako Olivier Language Services "For fast, reliable and quality translations between English and: Afrikaans, Ndebele, Northern Sotho (Sepedi), Otjiherero, Sesotho, Shona, Swahili, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa and Zulu."
• Asterisks.com Editing and Translation Services Online. Specializing in the 11 official languages of South Africa.
• Lingua Consultants specialize in the medical, pharmaceutical and chemical fields in European and African languages.
• Multilingua Translation and Interpretation Services

• Lesedi FM

Information

Sesotho (Southern Sotho) web page
Nice, extensive Sesotho site by Jako Olivier. Contains, amongst other things: Sesotho information, language reference and tutorial information, Sesotho literature, proverbs, idioms, riddles, computer terms.

Learning

English-Sesotho Vocabulary Quizzes

Projects

http://www.translate.org.za/
A non-profit organization translating various OpenSource software packages such as OpenOffice.org and the Mozilla web browser into all official South African languages. They have released isiZulu, Sesotho sa Leboa and Afrikaans versions of OpenOffice.

Wikipedia ya Sesotho

Miscellaneous

Google in Sesotho