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 ⓘ