<prompt> Hlalosa mofuta o nepahetseng oa data bakeng sa nomoro ea mohala.nan  <response>: Instruction in English: Identify the appropriate data type for a phone number. . Response in English: The appropriate data type for a phone number would be a string. A phone number is a sequence of characters, often including digits and special characters such as dashes or parentheses, which is more correctly represented as a string. Another reason to choose string instead of integer data type is that phone numbers can have leading zeros, and using an integer would remove the leading zeros, altering the original data. . Response in Sesotho: Mofuta o nepahetseng oa data bakeng sa nomoro ea mohala e ka ba khoele. Nomoro ea mohala ke tatellano ea litlhaku, hangata e kenyelletsa linomoro le litlhaku tse ikhethileng joalo ka li-dashes kapa masakaneng, tse emetsoeng hantle joalo ka khoele. Lebaka le leng la ho khetha mohala ho fapana le mofuta oa data kaofela ke hore linomoro tsa mohala li ka ba le li-zero tse etellang pele, me ho sebelisa palo e felletseng ho ka tlosa li-zero tse etellang pele, ho fetola data ea mantlha. 