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The aim is to document morphosyntactic microvariation in Southern Sotho through recorded speech.

April 3, 2026Open Access

ICULD-0017 Sesotho: Morphosyntactic Microvariation

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The aim is to document morphosyntactic microvariation in Southern Sotho through recorded speech.
Compiled a database of recordings from a single speaker in March 2020.
Used a Zoom H5 recorder set at a sampling rate of 44,100 Hz.
Focused on the Southern Sotho dialect as spoken in Maseru, Lesotho.
The database captures specific morphosyntactic variations unique to Southern Sotho.
Provides a valuable resource for future linguistic analysis of Bantu languages.

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The database ICULD-0017 contains recordings of phrases and sentences of Southern Sotho produced by a single speaker in March 2020.All recordings were made on a Zoom H5 recorder mounted on a tripod in Thohoyandou, Limpopo, South Africa (sampling rate 44,100 Hz with 16-but quantization).Southern Sotho (S33), also known as Sesotho, is a Bantu language spoken in South Africa and Lesotho by 5.6 million speakers.As one of the official languages of South Africa, the speech in this archive is based on the Sesotho spoken in Maseru, the capital of Lesotho. 3.

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