XiRonga

E618001

XiRonga is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Ronga people in southern Mozambique and surrounding regions.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
XiRonga canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
natural language
alsoKnownAs Cilonga
Ronga
belongsTo Guthrie zone S
linked to: Guthrie Zone S
closelyRelatedTo Tsonga language
Xitsonga
country Mozambique
ethnicGroup Ronga people
hasGlottocode rong1264
hasGlottologName Ronga
hasGuthrieCode S.54
hasISO6393Code rng
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Tswa
linked to: Tswa language

Xitsonga
hasMorphologyType agglutinative language
hasNounClassSystem yes
hasPhonologicalFeature five-vowel system
noun class prefixes
rich consonant system
hasStatus regional language in Mozambique
hasWordOrder SVO
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
inContactWith Portuguese language
Xitsonga
influencedBy Portuguese language
isMinorityLanguageIn Mozambique
isPartOf Mozambican linguistic heritage
isTaughtInformallyIn Ronga communities
languageFamily Bantu
linked to: Bantu languages

Niger–Congo language family
partOf Tswa–Ronga language group
region southern Africa
linked to: Southern Africa
sharesFeaturesWith Changana language
Tswa language
spokenBy Ronga people
spokenIn Maputo Province
Maputo city
linked to: Maputo

Mozambique
southern Mozambique
subfamily Southern Bantu languages
usedBy communities around Maputo Bay
usedIn oral communication
storytelling
traditional songs

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