Ronga

E154633

Ronga is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Mozambique, known for contributing vocabulary and structural features to African varieties of Portuguese.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Ronga canonical 19

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Changana
Tsonga
contributesTo Mozambican Portuguese
linked to: African Portuguese
country Mozambique
geneticClassification Atlantic-Congo languages
Bantoid languages
Benue-Congo languages
Narrow Bantu languages
linked to: Narrow Bantu

Niger-Congo languages
glottocode rong1265
hasAlternativeName GiRonga
ShiRonga
XiRonga
hasMorphologicalFeature prefixal noun classes
verbal extensions
hasPhonologicalFeature rich consonant inventory
tone
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
influences African varieties of Portuguese
Maputo Portuguese
linked to: African Portuguese
ISO639-3Code rng
isSpokenAs community language
first language
languageContactWith Changana
Portuguese
linked to: Portuguese language

Tsonga
Zulu
languageFamily Bantu
linked to: Bantu languages
lexicalBorrowingInto Portuguese
linked to: Portuguese language
linguisticArea Tswa-Ronga languages
primaryRegion southern Mozambique
region southern Africa
linked to: Southern Africa
regionOfInfluence Greater Maputo area
spokenIn Eswatini
Maputo Province
Maputo city
linked to: Maputo

South Africa
subfamily Southern Bantu languages
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
concordial agreement
noun class system
subject-verb-object word order
usedByEthnicGroup Ronga people

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (19)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Xitsonga hasDialects Ronga
Tsonga hasDialect Ronga
Tsonga closelyRelatedTo Ronga
Changana closelyRelatedTo Ronga
Ronga people ethnicity Ronga
Dzivi relatedTo Ronga
Xitswa closelyRelatedTo Ronga
XiRonga alsoKnownAs Ronga
XiRonga hasGlottologName Ronga
Ronga language hasAlternativeName Ronga
subject linked to: ShiRonga
GiRonga hasNameVariant Ronga