बासोथो द्वारा बोली जाने वाली सोथो की बोली; लेसोथो की एक आधिकारिक भाषा

basuto's Usage Examples:

Many Basuto at the public examinations take higher honours than competitors of European descent.

A large proportion of the people can read and write Sesuto (as the Basuto language is called) and English, and speak Dutch, whilst a considerable number also receive higher education.

of Maseru, the right bank of the Caledon, and affords a ready means of transport for the cereals raised on the left or Basuto side of the river.

Some 60,000 Basuto (annual average) find employment outside the Territory, more than half of whom seek farm and domestic service.

Nearly every Basuto is an agriculturist; there are no manufactories, and the minerals, in accordance with the desire of the people, are not worked.

The Basuto ponies, said to be descended from Shetland ponies which, imported to the Cape in 1840, strayed into the mountains, are short-legged, strong-bodied, sure-footed, and noted for their hardiness.

The great bulk of the people are Basuto, but there are some thousands of Barolong and other Kaffirs.

Swarms of locusts occasionally visit the country; the locusts are eaten by the Basuto.

Epidemics of smallpox and typhoid occur; and leprosy, imported from the Orange River and Cape Colonies, has taken firm hold on the Basuto, of whom about 9r per too() are sufferers from this disease.

From the tableland north of the Maluti several isolated hills rise, the most noted being the almost inaccessible Thaba Bosigo - the rallying place of the Basuto in many of their wars.

basuto's Meaning':

the dialect of Sotho spoken by the Basotho; an official language of Lesotho