Setswana (Tswana)

Overview

Setswana is one of the official languages of South Africa, and is a national language in Botswana. There are 3,677,016 (8.2 %) first language speakers [2001 census data] in South Africa, an estimated 1,070,000 speakers in Botswana, and an estimated 30,000 speakers in Namibia.

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

Setswana language family tree.

Tswana dictionaries

Online dictionaries / Electronic dictionaries

Setswana - English Microsoft Terminology New October 2014 Online searchable version of Microsoft's Setswana - English terminology (site not affiliated with Microsoft), published using tlTerm

Books

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

Radio stations

• Motsweding FM
• Tirelo ya Setswana Namibian Broadcasting Corporation - Radio - Setswana
• Radio Botswana Broadcasts in English and Setswana (allows listening to programming)

Links

Information

Botswana government information page on the Setswana language
This site includes sound clips of some basic Setswana phrases.

Spellcheckers

Firefox Setswana spell checker
"This spell checker is based on a Setswana word list originally created by Profs. Thapelo Otlogetswe of the University of Botswana and Kevin Scannell of Saint Louis University in 2004. It was greatly expanded in 2015, from about 6000 words to more than 60,000, thanks in part to the hard work of volunteer word list editors"

Projects

Setswana Language Interface Pack for Windows XP
A partial Setswana translation of Windows XP.

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 Setswana