Setswana – Mother of many Mother Languages
Today, February 21, is International Mother Language Day. So what better day than this to discuss our own vernacular? Setswana is the “mother tongue” (if is still considered politically correct to say mother tongue), of about eight million people living primarily in Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Namibia, where it enjoys the status of being a national, official, or recognised minority language. The geographic spread of the language is perhaps the widest in the SADC region after Kiswahili – ranging…