Kalanga

E143249

Kalanga is a Southern Bantu language spoken primarily in southwestern Zimbabwe and northeastern Botswana by the Kalanga people.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kalanga canonical 7
Zwide kaLanga 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
Southern Bantu language
autonym Ikalanga
belongsTo S.10 Bantu group
linked to: Makua group
closelyRelatedTo Nambya language
Shona language
linked to: Shona
country Botswana
Zimbabwe
ethnicGroupUsers Kalanga people
glottologCode kala1372
hasAlternativeName Ikalanga language
hasBasicWordOrder SVO
hasConsonantSystem rich consonant inventory including clicks in some varieties
hasDialect Eastern Kalanga
Western Kalanga
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature tone language
iso639-3Code kck
languageFamily Atlantic–Congo languages
Bantoid languages
Bantu languages
Benue–Congo languages
Niger–Congo languages
neighboringLanguages Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele

Shona
Tswana
linked to: Setswana
region Central District
Matabeleland North Province
linked to: Matabeleland North

Matabeleland South Province
linked to: Matabeleland South

North-East District
spokenIn Botswana
Zimbabwe
spokenPrimarilyIn northeastern Botswana
southwestern Zimbabwe
statusInBotswana minority language
statusInZimbabwe minority language
subgroupOf Shona languages
linked to: Shona
usedBy Kalanga ethnic group
linked to: Kalanga people
usedIn traditional oral literature of the Kalanga people
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

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

Mfecane hasKeyFigure Zwide kaLanga
linked to: Kalanga
Kalanga people ethnonym Kalanga