Given the question: Information: - The Basotho are a Bantu ethnic group whose ancestors have lived in southern Africa since around the fifth century. The Basotho nation emerged from the accomplished diplomacy of Moshoeshoe I who gathered together disparate clans of SothoTswana origin that had dispersed across southern Africa in the early 19th century. Most Basotho today live in South Africa, as the area of the Orange Free State was originally part of Moshoeshoe's nation (now Lesotho). - Lozi, also known as siLozi and Rozi, is a Bantu language of the NigerCongo language family within the Sotho languages branch of Zone S (S.30), that is spoken by the Lozi people, primarily in southwestern Zambia and in surrounding countries. This language is most closely related to Northern Sotho ("Sesotho sa Leboa"), Tswana ("Setswana"), Kgalagari ("SheKgalagari") and Sotho ("Sesotho"/Southern Sotho). Lozi and its dialects are spoken and understood by approximately six percent of the population of Zambia. "Silozi" is the autoglottonym or name of the language used by its native speakers as defined by the United Nations. "Lozi" is the heteroglottonym. - The Southern Bantu languages are a large group of Bantu languages, largely validated in Janson (1991/92). They are nearly synonymous with Guthrie's "Bantu zone S", apart from the exclusion of Shona and the inclusion of Makua. They include all of the important Bantu languages of South Africa, Botswana, and Mozambique. - The Tswana language, Setswana or Sichuan, is a language spoken in southern Africa by about five million people. It is a Bantu language belonging to the NigerCongo language family within the Sotho languages branch of Zone S (S.30), and is closely related to the Northern- and Southern Sotho languages, as well as the Kgalagadi language and the Lozi language. - The NigerCongo languages constitute one of the world's major language families, and Africa's largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers, and number of distinct languages. They may constitute the world's largest language family in terms of distinct languages, although this question is complicated by ambiguity about what constitutes a distinct language. - Moshoeshoe (c. 1786 11 March 1870) was born at Menkhoaneng in the northern part of present-day Lesotho. He was the first son of Mokhachane, a minor chief of the Bamokoteli lineage- a branch of the Koena (crocodile) clan. In his early childhood, he helped his father gain power over some other smaller clans. At the age of 34 Moshoeshoe formed his own clan and became a chief. He and his followers settled at the Butha-Buthe Mountain. - The Sotho - Tswana languages form a subgroup of Southern Bantu . It is sometimes also called '' Sotho '' , but it is more common now to reserve '' Sotho '' for Sesotho or '' Southern Sotho '' , the group of dialects spoken by the Sotho people ( Basotho ) . The '' Western Sotho '' branch or '' Tswanaic '' branch includes the Tswana language , spoken by the Tswana people ( Batswana ) . In addition , Northern Sotho is a geographical grouping for dialects that are neither part of the Southern nor the Western group . The Sotho - Tswana speaking groups would have diversified into their current arrangement the course of the 2nd millennium , but they retain a number of linguistic and cultural characteristics that distinguish them from other Bantu - speakers of southern Africa . These are features such as totemism , a pre-emptive right of men to marry their maternal cousins , and an architectural style characterized by a round hut with a conical thatch roof supported by wooden pillars on the outside . Other major distinguishing features included their dress of skin cloaks and a preference for dense and close settlements , as well as a tradition of large - scale building in stone . The area now settled by the various Sotho - Tswana groups was reached by the Bantu expansion by about AD 500 . The standard theory asserts that the Sotho - Tswana are descended from a group that moved southward from the Great Lakes in a separate movement from the other Southern Bantu groups , proceeding along the western part of present - day Zimbabwe . - The Orange Free State (, abbreviated as OVS) was an independent Boer sovereign republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, and later a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa. It is the historical precursor to the present-day Free State province. Extending between the Orange and Vaal rivers, its borders were determined by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1848 when the region was proclaimed as the Orange River Sovereignty, with a seat of a British Resident in Bloemfontein. - Kgalagadi (Kalahari) is one of the Bantu languages spoken in Botswana, along the South African border and in Namibia. It is spoken by about people. In the language, it is known as "Shekgalagari", pronounced . - Botswana , officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa. The citizens refer to themselves as "Batswana" (singular: "Motswana"). Formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth on 30 September 1966. Since then, it has maintained a strong tradition of stable representative democracy, with a consistent record of uninterrupted democratic elections. - The Tswana (singular "Motswana") are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group who are native to Southern Africa. The Tswana language belongs to the Bantu group of the NigerCongo languages. Ethnic Tswana made up approximately 79% of the population of Botswana in 2011. - Lesotho, officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is an enclaved, landlocked country in southern Africa completely surrounded by South Africa. It is just over in size and has a population slightly over two million. Its capital and largest city is Maseru. - The Sotho-Tswana languages are a group of closely related Southern Bantu languages spoken in Southern Africa. The Sotho-Tswana group corresponds to the S.30 label in Guthrie's (19671971) classification of languages in the Bantu family. - Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics, and including several countries. The term "southern Africa" or "Southern Africa", generally includes Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. From a political perspective the region is said to be unipolar with South Africa as a first regional power. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'sotho-tswana peoples' exhibits the relationship of 'instance of'. Find the answer from the choices below. 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