Sotho–Tswana languages
| Sotho–Tswana | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Southern Africa, mainly in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, and south-western Zambia, |
| Ethnicity | Sotho-Tswana peoples |
| Linguistic classification | Niger–Congo? |
| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| 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.