Tswana, called Setswana by its speakers, is a Bantu language of the Sotho-Tswana group. It is the national language of Botswana, where English is the official language of government, and it is one of South Africa's official languages, with more speakers in South Africa than in Botswana itself, concentrated in North West province and around Gauteng. Smaller communities speak it in Namibia and Zimbabwe. Estimates put total speakers at over five million, plus many second-language users in Botswana, where it is the everyday lingua franca. Setswana is written in the Latin alphabet and was among the first southern African languages to appear in print, in the nineteenth century. It is closely related to Sesotho and Sepedi.
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