Ronga language
Bantu language spoken in southern Africa / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ronga (XiRonga; sometimes ShiRonga or GiRonga) is a Bantu language of the Tswa–Ronga branch spoken just south of Maputo in Mozambique. It extends a little into South Africa. It has about 650,000 speakers in Mozambique and a further 90,000 in South Africa, with dialects including Konde, Putru and Kalanga.
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Ronga | |
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Native to | Mozambique, South Africa |
Native speakers | 720,000 (2006)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | rng |
Glottolog | rong1268 |
S.54 [2] | |
Linguasphere | 99-AUT-dd |
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The Swiss philologist Henri-Alexandre Junod seems to have been the first linguist to have studied it, in the late 19th century.