Changana

E129307

Changana is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Mozambique and neighboring regions, known for its significant influence on local varieties of African Portuguese.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Changana canonical 13

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Ronga
Tsonga
continent Africa
countryOfficialStatus recognized Mozambican language (non-official at national level)
glottologCode chan1310
glottologName Changana self-link
hasAlternativeName Tsonga language
surface form: Changana Tsonga

Xichangana
hasConsonantInventoryType moderately large
hasDialectContinuumWith Ronga
Tsonga
hasNounClassSystem yes
hasTone yes
hasVowelSystemType 5-vowel system
influences African Portuguese in Mozambique
local varieties of Mozambican Portuguese
iso639-3Code tsc
languageFamily Bantu languages
surface form: Bantu
languageOf Mozambican cultural identity in the south
lexicalBorrowingInto African Portuguese
surface form: Mozambican Portuguese
macroArea Sub-Saharan Africa
morphologicalType agglutinative language
phonologicalInfluenceOn African Portuguese
surface form: Mozambican Portuguese
primaryCountry Mozambique
primaryRegion Mozambique
surface form: southern Mozambique
regionOfUse Gaza Province
Maputo
surface form: Maputo City

Maputo Province
spokenIn Eswatini
Mozambique
South Africa
Zimbabwe
subfamily Southern Bantu languages
Tswa–Ronga languages
usedAsLinguaFrancaIn parts of southern Mozambique
usedByEthnicGroup Tsonga people
usedInDomain local media
music
oral communication
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (13)

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

Tsonga hasDialect Changana
Tsonga closelyRelatedTo Changana
Xai-Xai languageUsed Changana
Changana glottologName Changana self-link
Tsonga language hasDialect Changana
Gaza Province usedLanguage Changana
Ronga closelyRelatedTo Changana
Ronga languageContactWith Changana
Xai-Xai Beach languageSpoken Changana