XiRonga

E618001

XiRonga is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Ronga people in southern Mozambique and surrounding regions.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
XiRonga canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Cilonga ⓘ
Ronga ⓘ
belongsTo Guthrie zone S ⓘ
linked to: Guthrie Zone S
closelyRelatedTo Tsonga language ⓘ
Xitsonga ⓘ
country Mozambique ⓘ
ethnicGroup Ronga people ⓘ
hasGlottocode rong1264 ⓘ
hasGlottologName Ronga ⓘ
hasGuthrieCode S.54 ⓘ
hasISO6393Code rng ⓘ
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Tswa ⓘ
linked to: Tswa language

Xitsonga ⓘ
hasMorphologyType agglutinative language ⓘ
hasNounClassSystem yes ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature five-vowel system ⓘ
noun class prefixes ⓘ
rich consonant system ⓘ
hasStatus regional language in Mozambique ⓘ
hasWordOrder SVO ⓘ
hasWritingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet
inContactWith Portuguese language ⓘ
Xitsonga ⓘ
influencedBy Portuguese language ⓘ
isMinorityLanguageIn Mozambique ⓘ
isPartOf Mozambican linguistic heritage ⓘ
isTaughtInformallyIn Ronga communities ⓘ
languageFamily Bantu ⓘ
linked to: Bantu languages

Niger–Congo language family ⓘ
partOf Tswa–Ronga language group ⓘ
region southern Africa ⓘ
linked to: Southern Africa
sharesFeaturesWith Changana language ⓘ
Tswa language ⓘ
spokenBy Ronga people ⓘ
spokenIn Maputo Province ⓘ
Maputo city ⓘ
linked to: Maputo

Mozambique ⓘ
southern Mozambique ⓘ
subfamily Southern Bantu languages ⓘ
usedBy communities around Maputo Bay ⓘ
usedIn oral communication ⓘ
storytelling ⓘ
traditional songs ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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