Xichangana

E547889

Xichangana is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Mozambique and parts of South Africa and Eswatini, closely related to Tsonga.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Xichangana canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
natural language
alternativeName Changana
Xitsonga Changana
linked to: Xitsonga
belongsToMacroLanguage Tsonga (Xitsonga)
linked to: Xitsonga
closelyRelatedTo Tsonga
hasGrammarFeature object concords
subject concords
verb derivational extensions
hasISO639-3Code tsn (cluster-related; Tsonga/Changana grouping)
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Xitsonga
Xitsonga dialects in South Africa
hasLinguisticType agglutinative language
tonal language
hasLoanwordsFrom Portuguese
linked to: Portuguese language

Zulu and other Nguni languages (in border areas)
hasMorphology prefixing
suffixing
hasNounClasses multiple grammatical noun classes
hasNounClassSystem yes
hasOrthographicBasis Portuguese-influenced Latin orthography (in Mozambique)
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone
rich consonant inventory
hasStatus regional language in southern Mozambique
languageFamily Bantu
linked to: Bantu languages
mutuallyIntelligibleWith other Tsonga varieties (to a significant degree)
neighboringLanguages Ronga
Swati (siSwati)
Tswa
linked to: Tswa language

Zulu
partOf Tsonga language cluster
region Southern Africa
spokenIn Eswatini
Mozambique
South Africa
spokenPrimarilyIn southern Mozambique
subfamily Southern Bantu languages
usedAs home language in many communities
usedByEthnicGroup Changana people
usedInCountry Kingdom of Eswatini
linked to: Eswatini

Republic of Mozambique
linked to: Mozambique

Republic of South Africa
linked to: South Africa
usedInDomain daily communication
local media (in some areas)
music and songs
oral tradition
usesWordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Changana hasAlternativeName Xichangana
Changana language alternateName Xichangana