Ronga language

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The Ronga language is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Mozambique, closely related to Tsonga and used by the Ronga people in the Maputo region.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Ronga language canonical 13

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (39)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Tsonga language ⓘ
Xitsonga ⓘ
continent Africa ⓘ
country Mozambique ⓘ
glottocode rong1265 ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Ronga ⓘ
ShiRonga ⓘ
XiRonga ⓘ
hasBasicWordOrder SVO ⓘ
hasEthnicGroup Ronga people ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature noun class system ⓘ
tone ⓘ
isMinorityLanguageIn Mozambique ⓘ
iso639-3Code rng ⓘ
languageFamily Atlantic–Congo languages ⓘ
Bantoid languages ⓘ
Bantu languages ⓘ
Benue–Congo languages ⓘ
Niger–Congo languages ⓘ
languageGroup Southern Bantu languages ⓘ
languageSubgroup Tsonga languages ⓘ
lexicallySimilarTo Tsonga language ⓘ
Tswa language ⓘ
neighboringLanguage Changana language ⓘ
Tswa language ⓘ
partOf Tswa–Ronga dialect continuum ⓘ
region Maputo region ⓘ
linked to: Maputo Province

southern Africa ⓘ
spokenBy Ronga people ⓘ
spokenIn Maputo Province ⓘ
Maputo city ⓘ
linked to: Maputo

Mozambique ⓘ
southern Mozambique ⓘ
usedFor daily communication ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (13)

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

Tsonga language → closelyRelatedTo → Ronga language ⓘ
Tswa language → neighboringLanguages → Ronga language ⓘ
Tswa–Ronga languages → hasPart → Ronga language ⓘ
Chopi → closelyRelatedTo → Ronga language ⓘ
Bitonga → isRelatedTo → Ronga language ⓘ
Ronga people → language → Ronga language ⓘ
Tswa-Ronga group → hasPart → Ronga language ⓘ
ShiRonga → alternativeNameOf → Ronga language ⓘ
GiRonga → alternativeNameOf → Ronga language ⓘ
Changana language → closelyRelatedTo → Ronga language ⓘ
Kande language → relatedTo → Ronga language ⓘ