Country Info

Lesotho Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 1,754,403 people (90% of Lesotho) that can read or write at least one language.

5 Writing Systems used in Lesotho

Southern Sotho (Latin)

st-latn
language code
1,918,879
people

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
528,670
people

Zulu (Latin)

zu-latn
language code
274,125
people

Swati (Latin)

ss-latn
language code
46,992
people

Xhosa (Latin)

xh-latn
language code
19,580
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR