Ronga

E154633

Ronga is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Mozambique, known for contributing vocabulary and structural features to African varieties of Portuguese.

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Label Occurrences
Ronga canonical 8

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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

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