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Sepedi, is one of South Africa’s twelve official languages and belongs to the Bantu languages language family, specifically the Sotho-Tswana group. The language is spoken mainly in Limpopo, and to a lesser extent in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, and North West .
Sepedi refers to the dialect spoken by the Pedi people. Northern Sotho is the umbrella term for a group of related dialects. The two terms are often used interchangeably, but technically Sepedi is one dialect of Northern Sotho.
As of the 2022 South African Census, approximately 6.2 million people — or 10.0% of the national population speak Sepedi as their first language. Sepedi ranks as the fifth most spoken first language.
Most Khelobedu speakers only learn to speak Sepedi at school, such that Sepedi is only their second or third language. Khelobedu is a written language. Lobedu is spoken by a majority of people in the Greater Tzaneen, Greater Letaba, and BaPhalaborwa municipalities, and a minority in Greater Giyani municipality, as well as in the Limpopo Province and Tembisa township in Gauteng. Its speakers are known as the Balobedu.
Sepulana () exists in unwritten form and forms part of the standard Northern Sotho. Sepulana is spoken in Bushbuckridge area by the MaPulana people.
| +Northern Sotho vowels |
| +Northern Sotho consonants |
Other consonant sounds include fricative-combinations and .
Within nasal consonant compounds, the first nasal consonant sound is recognized as syllabic. Words such as nthuše "help me", are pronounced as . /n/ can also be pronounced as following a velar consonant.
Urban varieties of Northern Sotho, such as Pretoria Sotho (actually a derivative of Tswana language), have acquired click consonant in an ongoing process of such sounds spreading from Nguni languages.
| Kamogelo (noun) / Amogela (verb) | |
| Good day | Dumela (singular) / Dumelang (plural) / Thobela and Re a lotšha (to elders) |
| O kae? (singular) Le kae? (plural, also used for elders) | |
| Ke gona. Ke tsogile(singular). Re tsogile(plural). | |
| Le nna ke gona, ke a leboga. | |
| Ke a leboga (I thank you) / Re a leboga (we thank you) | |
| Mahlatse | |
| O be le leeto le le bolokegilego | |
| Šala gabotse (singular)/ Šalang gabotse (plural, also used for elders)(keep well) / Sepela gabotse(singular)/Sepelang gabotse (plural, also used for elders)(go well) | |
| Ke nyaka mošomô | |
| Ga go kgogwe (/folwe) | |
| Ga go tsenwe | |
| Hlokomela disetepese!/ditepisi | |
| Hlokomela! | |
| Mahlatse letšatšing la gago la matswalo | |
| Ditumedišo tša Sehla sa Maikhutšo | |
| Mahlogonolo a Keresemose | |
| Mahlogonolo a Keresemose le ngwaga wo moswa wo monate | |
| Gontsha sa mafahleng | |
| ee/eya/eye | |
| aowa | |
| hle | |
| ke a leboga | |
| thušang/thušo | |
| kotsi | |
| tšhoganetšo | |
| ntshwarele | |
| Ke maswabi | |
| Ke a go rata | |
| Dipotšišo / mafoko | |
| O amogela (singular) / Le amogela ( tshelete/.../...)? | |
| Ke bokae e? | |
| Ke nyaka... | |
| O dira eng? | |
| Ke nako mang? | |
| O ya kae? | |
| Dinomoro | |
| tee | |
| pedi | |
| tharo | |
| nne | |
| hlano | |
| tshela | |
| šupa | |
| seswai | |
| senyane | |
| lesome | |
| lesometee | |
| lesomepedi | |
| lesometharo | |
| lesomenne | |
| lesomehlano | |
| masomepedi | |
| masomepedi-tee | |
| masomepedi-pedi | |
| masomehlano | |
| lekgolo | |
| sekete | |
| Matšatši a beke | |
| Lamorena | |
| Mošupologo | |
| Labobedi | |
| Laboraro | |
| Labone | |
| Labohlano | |
| Mokibelo | |
| Dikgwedi tša ngwaga | |
| Pherekgong | |
| Dibokwane | |
| Hlakola | |
| Moranang | |
| Mopitlo | |
| Ngwatobošego / Phupu | |
| Mosegamanye | |
| Phato | |
| Lewedi | |
| Diphalane | |
| Dibatsela | |
| Manthole | |
| Didirishwa tsa khomphutha le Inthanete | |
| sebaledi / khomphutara | |
| imeile | |
| aterese ya imeile | |
| Inthanete | |
| khefi ya Inthanete | |
| weposaete | |
| aterese ya weposaete | |
| Pula | |
| Go kwešiša | |
| Dinaka | |
| Meropa | |
| Lenaka | |
| Mebala | |
| Hubedu/Khubedu | |
| Tsotho | |
| Talamorogo | |
| Talalerata | |
| Ntsho | |
| šweu | |
| Serolwana | |
| Gauta | |
| Pududu | |
| Sehla or Tshehla | |
| Silifere |
Temana 2 Mang le mang o swanetše ke ditokelo le ditokologo ka moka tše go boletšwego ka tšona ka mo Boikanong bjo, ntle le kgethollo ya mohuta wo mongwe le wo mongwe bjalo ka morafe, mmala, bong, polelo, bodumedi, dipolitiki goba ka kgopolo, botšo go ya ka setšhaba goba maemo, diphahlo, matswalo goba maemo a mangwe le a mangwe.
Go feta fao, ga go kgethollo yeo e swanetšego go dirwa go ya ka maemo a dipolitiki, tokelo ya boahlodi, goba maemo a ditšhabatšhaba goba lefelo leo motho a dulago go lona, goba ke naga ye e ipušago, trasete, naga ya go se ipuše goba se sengwe le se sengwe seo se ka fokotšago maemo a go ikemela ga naga ya gabo.
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