“Languages represent thousands of natural experiments: ways of seeing, understanding and living that should form part of any meaningful account of what it is to be human”

SiPhuthi was given a boost in August when it was made an official language of Lesotho, alongside Xhosa and sign language. It was the culmination of decades of campaigning, said Libadla le baPhuthi’s president, Letzadzo Kometsi.