Northern Sotho

The human-voice clips, which were at conversational volume levels, came from radio or television recordings of people speaking the four most used languages in the region, including Tsonga, Northern Sotho, English, and Afrikaans.

The group in March began generating entries in Afrikaans and Northern Sotho and will do so eventually in the country’s nine other official languages.

Pedis are the largest of the northern Sotho groups, and these jubilant returnees were members of a community that had lived and farmed there in Doornkop for more than 70 years.