Tags: Ethnic Group.
Pedi (also known as Bapedi Bamaroteng Marota Basotho Northern Sotho – in its broadest sense) has been a cultural/linguistic term – previously used to describe the entire set of people speaking various dialects of the Sotho language who live in the Limpopo Province of South Africa more recently the term Northern Sotho has replaced Pedi to characterise this loose collectivity of groups.The Northern Sotho have been subdivided into the high-veld Sotho which are comparatively recent immigrants mostly from the west and southwest and the low-veld Sotho who combine immigrants from the north with inhabitants of longer standing.