Ronga language

E567410

The Ronga language is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Mozambique, closely related to Tsonga and used by the Ronga people in the Maputo region.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Ronga language canonical 13

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (39)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Tsonga language
Xitsonga
continent Africa
country Mozambique
glottocode rong1265
hasAlternativeName Ronga
ShiRonga
XiRonga
hasBasicWordOrder SVO
hasEthnicGroup Ronga people
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature noun class system
tone
isMinorityLanguageIn Mozambique
iso639-3Code rng
languageFamily Atlantic–Congo languages
Bantoid languages
Bantu languages
Benue–Congo languages
Niger–Congo languages
languageGroup Southern Bantu languages
languageSubgroup Tsonga languages
lexicallySimilarTo Tsonga language
Tswa language
neighboringLanguage Changana language
Tswa language
partOf Tswa–Ronga dialect continuum
region Maputo region
linked to: Maputo Province

southern Africa
spokenBy Ronga people
spokenIn Maputo Province
Maputo city
linked to: Maputo

Mozambique
southern Mozambique
usedFor daily communication
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (13)

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

Tsonga language closelyRelatedTo Ronga language
Tswa language neighboringLanguages Ronga language
Tswa–Ronga languages hasPart Ronga language
Chopi closelyRelatedTo Ronga language
Bitonga isRelatedTo Ronga language
Ronga people language Ronga language
Tswa-Ronga group hasPart Ronga language
ShiRonga alternativeNameOf Ronga language
GiRonga alternativeNameOf Ronga language
Changana language closelyRelatedTo Ronga language
Kande language relatedTo Ronga language