About Sesotho Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Sotho is a Southern Bantu language and is spoken in the Sotho-Tswana group. The language is spoken by the Basotho in Lesotho. It is the official and national language; South Africa is where. Sesotho is also one of the 11 official languages and is widely spoken in Zimbabwe. It is one of the 16 official languages in South Africa. It is similar to the Bantu languages and is a popular agglutinative language. The language uses numerous affixes and builds complete words. Sotho is a Southern Bantu language, and it belongs to the Niger-Congo language family. It is spoken within the Sotho-Tswana branch of Zone S (S.30). "Sotho" is spoken by the entire Sotho-Tswana group, and is called "Southern Sotho". Within the Sotho-Tswana group, it is closely related to Lozi (Silozi). It is very much similar to the Southern Bantu languages like Venda, Tsonga, Tonga, Lozi, and another native language of Zambia.
About Odia (Oriya) Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Odia language is an Indo-Aryan language. It is spoken by 50 million speakers as this language is recognized officially. The Indian constitution is using this language officially for its purposes. Odia is also the official language of Odisha (Oriya) which is a prominent Indian state. This language has several dialects but Mughalbandi (Coastal Odia) happens to be the standard dialect. It is also the official language for education in this state. Odia belongs to the eastern group of the Indo-Aryan family. It is derived from Ardhamagadhi Prakrit. You will be surprised to know that Odia shares a lot of similarities with Bengali. Even the first classic poetry started to shape up with this language. This language is heavily inspired by Dravidian languages. The lexicon is also associated with Tamil, Telugu, and Marathi.
