Northern Ndebele

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Northern Ndebele is a Bantu language of the Nguni group spoken primarily in southwestern Zimbabwe and closely related to Zulu.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
Nguni language
natural language
alsoKnownAs Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele

Zimbabwean Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele

isiNdebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
closelyRelatedTo Southern Ndebele
Zulu
countryStatusInZimbabwe recognized indigenous language
ethnicGroup Northern Ndebele people
linked to: Northern Ndebele
family Niger–Congo
hasFeature agglutinative morphology
click consonants
noun class system
tone language
hasGrammaticalSimilarityTo Zulu
hasLexicalSimilarityTo Zulu
hasPhonologicalSimilarityTo Zulu
languageCodeISO639-1 nd
languageCodeISO639-2 nde
languageCodeISO639-3 nde
primaryCountry Zimbabwe
region Bulawayo
Matabeleland North
Matabeleland South
southwestern Zimbabwe
spokenIn Botswana
South Africa
standardizationStatus standardized orthography exists
standardVarietyBasedOn speech of the Ndebele people of Matabeleland
subclassOf Bantu languages
Nguni languages
subfamily Atlantic–Congo
Bantu
Benue–Congo
Nguni
linked to: Nguni languages

Southern Bantoid
Southern Bantu
usedAs vernacular language in Matabeleland
usedIn education in parts of Zimbabwe
print media in Zimbabwe
radio broadcasting in Zimbabwe
writingSystem Latin script

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

Zimbabwe officialLanguage Northern Ndebele
Northern Ndebele alsoKnownAs isiNdebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Northern Ndebele alsoKnownAs Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Northern Ndebele alsoKnownAs Zimbabwean Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Northern Ndebele ethnicGroup Northern Ndebele people
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Harare commonlySpokenLanguage Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Bulawayo languageMajority Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Zulu closelyRelatedTo Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Zulu isMutuallyIntelligibleWith Northern Ndebele
Gweru languageSignificant Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Bantu languages majorLanguage IsiNdebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Southern Bantu hasMemberLanguage Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Southern Bantu hasMemberLanguage Northern Ndebele
nde represents Northern Ndebele
nde iso6392CodeFor Northern Ndebele
nde iso6393CodeFor Northern Ndebele
nde macrolanguageGroup Ndebele languages
linked to: Northern Ndebele
nde glottologCodeFor Northern Ndebele
nde hasAlternativeName North Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
nde hasAlternativeName Sindebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Nguni languages hasMember Northern Ndebele language
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Nguni languages hasMajorLanguage Ndebele language
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Southern Ndebele closelyRelatedTo Northern Ndebele language
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Matabeleland North commonlySpokenLanguage Northern Ndebele
Matabeleland South commonlySpokenLanguage Northern Ndebele
Shona closelyRelatedTo Northern Ndebele
Harare City Council usesLanguage Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Plumtree languageSpoken Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Highlanders F.C. fanCultureLanguage Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Bulawayo City Council usesLanguage Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Swati closelyRelatedTo Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Matabeleland languageSpoken Northern Ndebele
Lobengula Khumalo languageSpoken Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Beitbridge languageSpoken Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Murambi hasLanguage Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Midlands Province language Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
VOA Africa languageOfBroadcast Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Swati language closelyRelatedTo Ndebele language
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Ndebele beadwork ethnicGroup Northern Ndebele
Kalanga neighboringLanguages Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Tonga (Zimbabwe) neighboringLanguages Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Cabinet of Zimbabwe language Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Ngoni relatedTo Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Ndebele people traditionalLanguage Northern Ndebele language
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Tsholotsho majorLanguage Northern Ndebele
Tsholotsho hasCommunicationLanguage Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Bubi District languageUsed Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Victoria Falls (town) languageSpoken Ndebele
subject linked to: Victoria Falls town
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Lupane languageSpoken Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele
Southern Bantu languages includesLanguage Ndebele
linked to: Northern Ndebele