Northern Sotho language

Sotho
Sotho
Person	Mopedi
People	Bapedi
Language	Sepedi

Sepedi
Sepedi
Native to	South Africa
Region	Gauteng, Limpopo, parts of Mpumalanga
Ethnicity	Pedi ; Lobedu ; Pulana ; Tlôkwa
Native speakers	4.7 million (2011 census); 9.1 million L2 speakers (2002)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu Southern Bantu Sotho–Tswana Sepedi; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Tswaniac Hurutshe Kgatla ; ;
Standard forms	Pedi
Writing system	Latin (Northern Sotho alphabet); Sotho Braille; Ditema tsa Dinoko
Signed forms	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	nso
Glottolog	pedi1238 Pedi
Guthrie code	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

Sepedi , formerly called Sesotho sa Lebowa an official language for Lebowa homeland during apartheid, is a Sotho-Tswana language group spoken in the northeastern provinces of South Africa. It is commonly referred to in its standardized form as Pedi or Sepedi and holds the status of an official language in South Africa.

According to the South African National Census of 2011, it is the first language of over 4.6 million (9.1%) people, making it the 5th most spoken language in South Africa. The Sepedi language is spoken most commonly in Mpumalanga, Gauteng and the Limpopo provinces.

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