Sotho–Tswana languages

Sotho–Tswana
Sotho–Tswana
Ethnicity	Sotho-Tswana peoples
Geographic; distribution	Southern Africa, mainly in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, and south-western Zambia,
Linguistic classification	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu Southern Bantu Sotho–Tswana; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Subdivisions	Setswana; Northern Sotho; Southern Sotho; Lozi;
Glottolog	soth1248

The Sotho-Tswana languages are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken in Southern Africa. The Sotho-Tswana group corresponds to the S.30 label in Guthrie's 1967–71 classification of languages in the Bantu family.

The various dialects of Tswana, Southern Sotho and Northern Sotho are highly mutually intelligible. On more than one occasion, proposals have been put forward to create a unified standardisation and declare a Sotho-Tswana language.

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