About Swahili Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Swahili is a popular Bantu language that is spoken in Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya. It is also widely spoken in Burundi, Mozambique, Oman, Somalia the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Africa. The total number of native speakers is 98 million. According to a survey in 2012, there are about 47 million speakers in Tanzania and around 34 million in Uganda. You will be surprised to know that there is a small number of speakers in other parts of the world. Swahili is written in the Arabic script and is very much influenced by the Latin alphabet. There are plenty of dialects of Swahili but the modern standard Swahili is based on Kiunguja. Some old dialects include Maho that is distinctive from other dialects. Kimwani is another dialect that is majorly spoken in Mozambique.
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.
