Northern Sotho people

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The Northern Sotho people are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group of South Africa, primarily known for their Sepedi language and rich cultural traditions in the country’s northeastern regions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu people
ethnic group
apartheidEraHomeland Lebowa
capitalRegionCity Polokwane
clanSystem patrilineal clans
colonialHistory affected by Boer expansion
incorporated into South African Republic territories
continent Africa
country South Africa
countryCitizenshipMajority South African citizens
culturalFestival heritage celebrations in Limpopo
culturalPractice ancestor veneration
initiation schools
demographicGroupOf South African population
ethnolinguisticGroup Sotho-Tswana peoples
surface form: Sotho–Tswana peoples
GuthrieClassification S.32
historicalRegion Transvaal
ISO639-1Code nso
ISO639-2Code nso
kinship patrilineal descent
language Northern Sotho (Sepedi)
surface form: Northern Sotho language

Northern Sotho (Sepedi)
surface form: Sepedi language
languageBranch Sotho–Tswana languages
languageFamily Bantu languages
marriageCustom lobola
primaryRegion northeastern South Africa
recognizedLanguageStatus Northern Sotho is an official language of South Africa
region Gauteng
surface form: Gauteng Province

Limpopo Province
Mpumalanga
surface form: Mpumalanga Province
relatedEthnicGroup Basotho people
surface form: Southern Sotho people

Tswana people
religion African traditional religion
Christianity
traditionalArt beadwork
woodcarving
traditionalCrop maize
sorghum
traditionalDance mokgibo
traditionalEconomy cattle herding
subsistence agriculture
traditionalFood morogo
pap
traditionalHousing rondavel
traditionalLeadership chiefdoms
traditionalMusic call-and-response singing
drumming
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Limpopo hasMajorEthnicGroup Northern Sotho people
Limpopo Province hasEthnicGroup Northern Sotho people
this entity surface form: Northern Sotho (Sepedi) people
Vhembe District Municipality hasEthnicGroup Northern Sotho people
Pedi people alsoKnownAs Northern Sotho people
Pedi people partOf Northern Sotho people
this entity surface form: Northern Sotho ethnic cluster
Sotho-Tswana peoples includeEthnicGroup Northern Sotho people
Mamphela Ramphele ethnicGroup Northern Sotho people
Sekopa dialect belongsToEthnolinguisticGroup Northern Sotho people
Luvenda neighboringEthnicGroups Northern Sotho people
Venda people neighboringEthnicGroup Northern Sotho people
Thabo isUsedBy Northern Sotho people
Bapedi ethnicGroupOf Northern Sotho people
Bapedi partOf Northern Sotho people
this entity surface form: Northern Sotho ethnic cluster