this has very little to do with scotland

My cheapo mobile phone comes with language options. The language options of my cheapo mobile phone are six in number. The language options of my cheapo mobile phone are as follows:

English
German
French
Turkish
Zulu
Sesotho

Yep. Sesotho. As in, the language whose passive verbs I spent last summer analyzing as part of a research project. The one they speak here:


(in the green dot and surrounding areas)

I suppose Mobileworld could secretly be a South African company (fits the Zulu as well), but that explains neither why Turkish is on here, nor why Afrikaans is not.

I don't actually speak Sesotho for beans, but I had surprisingly little trouble navigating the menu, since several of the headings were 'ladi-call,' 'Di-setting,' 'di-alamo' (alarm clock) and so forth. Yay noun class prefixes!