Setswana is one of the official languages of South Africa, and is a national language in Botswana. There are 3,677,016 (8.2 %) first language speakers [2001 census data] in South Africa, an estimated 1,070,000 speakers in Botswana, and an estimated 30,000 speakers in Namibia.

Setswana is most closely related to two other languages in the Sotho language group, Sesotho (Southern Sotho) and Sesotho sa Leboa (Northern Sotho)

Setswana language family tree.

Books

South African Oxford Multilingual Primary Dictionary (Sotho) (OUPSA)
[ Buy from Kalahari.net | Publisher link ]

• Web-lingo South African based online translation service offering general and technical translations, development of multilingual websites, and software localisation services.
• Folio Translation Consultants "specialising in African, major European and Asian languages".
• Jako Olivier Language Services "For fast, reliable and quality translations between English and: Afrikaans, Ndebele, Northern Sotho (Sepedi), Otjiherero, Sesotho, Shona, Swahili, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa and Zulu."
• Asterisks.com Editing and Translation Services Online. Specializing in the 11 official languages of South Africa.
• Lingua Consultants specialize in the medical, pharmaceutical and chemical fields in European and African languages.
• Multilingua Translation and Interpretation Services

• Motsweding FM
• Tirelo ya Setswana Namibian Broadcasting Corporation - Radio - Setswana
• Radio Botswana Broadcasts in English and Setswana (allows listening to programming)

Information

Botswana government information page on the Setswana language
This site includes sound clips of some basic Setswana phrases.

Projects

Setswana Language Interface Pack for Windows XP
A partial Setswana translation of Windows XP.

http://www.translate.org.za/
A non-profit organization translating various OpenSource software packages such as OpenOffice.org and the Mozilla web browser into all official South African languages. They have released isiZulu, Sesotho sa Leboa and Afrikaans versions of OpenOffice.

Wikipedia ya Setswana