Ronga people

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The Ronga people are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group of southern Mozambique, closely related to the Tsonga, with distinct cultural traditions and language.

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Label Occurrences
Ronga people canonical 12

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu people ⓘ
ethnic group ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Tsonga people ⓘ
coastalPresence Indian Ocean coast of Mozambique ⓘ
colonialHistory Portuguese Mozambique ⓘ
continent Africa ⓘ
country Mozambique ⓘ
culturalRegion Southern Africa ⓘ
ethnicity Ronga ⓘ
ethnolinguisticGroup Tsonga–Ronga ⓘ
linked to: Bitonga
historicalInteraction Nguni groups ⓘ
linked to: Nguni people

Portuguese colonists ⓘ
kinshipSystem clan-based ⓘ
language Ronga language ⓘ
languageFamily Bantu languages ⓘ
Niger–Congo languages ⓘ
linguisticRelation Changana language ⓘ
Tsonga language ⓘ
livelihood labor migration ⓘ
small-scale farming ⓘ
macroEthnicCategory Tsonga peoples ⓘ
linked to: Tsonga people
marriageCustom bridewealth ⓘ
neighboringGroup Changana people ⓘ
Tsonga people ⓘ
Zulu people ⓘ
oralTradition folktales ⓘ
praise poetry ⓘ
proverbs ⓘ
primaryRegion southern Mozambique ⓘ
region Limpopo River basin ⓘ
Maputo Province ⓘ
religion African traditional religion ⓘ
Christianity ⓘ
socialStructure patrilineal ⓘ
traditionalCraft basketry ⓘ
pottery ⓘ
wood carving ⓘ
traditionalDance communal dance ⓘ
traditionalHousing thatched huts ⓘ
traditionalMusic call-and-response singing ⓘ
drumming ⓘ
traditionalReligionElement ancestor veneration ⓘ
spirit possession beliefs ⓘ
traditionalSubsistence agriculture ⓘ
animal husbandry ⓘ
fishing ⓘ
urbanCenter Maputo ⓘ
Matola ⓘ

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Referenced by (12)

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

Ronga → usedByEthnicGroup → Ronga people ⓘ
Maputo Province → hasMajorEthnicGroup → Ronga people ⓘ
Ronga language → spokenBy → Ronga people ⓘ
Ronga language → hasEthnicGroup → Ronga people ⓘ
Tswa-Ronga group → usedBy → Ronga people ⓘ
XiRonga → spokenBy → Ronga people ⓘ
XiRonga → ethnicGroup → Ronga people ⓘ
Ronga language → usedBy → Ronga people ⓘ
subject linked to: ShiRonga
GiRonga → usedByEthnicGroup → Ronga people ⓘ
Tswa people → closelyRelatedTo → Ronga people ⓘ