Kalanga

E143249
Bantu language Southern Bantu language

Kalanga is a Southern Bantu language spoken primarily in southwestern Zimbabwe and northeastern Botswana by the Kalanga people.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kalanga canonical 7
Zwide kaLanga 1

Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language ⓘ
Southern Bantu language ⓘ
autonym Ikalanga ⓘ
belongsTo Makua group ⓘ
surface form: S.10 Bantu group
closelyRelatedTo Nambya language ⓘ
Shona ⓘ
surface form: Shona language
country Botswana ⓘ
Zimbabwe ⓘ
ethnicGroupUsers Kalanga people ⓘ
glottologCode kala1372 ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Ikalanga language ⓘ
hasBasicWordOrder SVO ⓘ
hasConsonantSystem rich consonant inventory including clicks in some varieties ⓘ
hasDialect Eastern Kalanga ⓘ
Western Kalanga ⓘ
hasMorphologyType agglutinative ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature tone language ⓘ
iso639-3Code kck ⓘ
languageFamily Atlantic–Congo languages ⓘ
Bantoid languages ⓘ
Bantu languages ⓘ
Benue–Congo languages ⓘ
Niger–Congo languages ⓘ
neighboringLanguages Northern Ndebele ⓘ
surface form: Ndebele

Shona ⓘ
Setswana ⓘ
surface form: Tswana
region Central District ⓘ
Matabeleland North ⓘ
surface form: Matabeleland North Province

Matabeleland South ⓘ
surface form: Matabeleland South Province

North-East District ⓘ
spokenIn Botswana ⓘ
Zimbabwe ⓘ
spokenPrimarilyIn northeastern Botswana ⓘ
southwestern Zimbabwe ⓘ
statusInBotswana minority language ⓘ
statusInZimbabwe minority language ⓘ
subgroupOf Shona ⓘ
surface form: Shona languages
usedBy Kalanga people ⓘ
surface form: Kalanga ethnic group
usedIn traditional oral literature of the Kalanga people ⓘ
writingSystem Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (8)

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

Southern Bantu → hasMemberLanguage → Kalanga ⓘ
Matabeleland North → commonlySpokenLanguage → Kalanga ⓘ
Matabeleland South → hasEthnicGroup → Kalanga ⓘ
Venda → hasNeighbouringLanguages → Kalanga ⓘ
Matabeleland → demographicGroup → Kalanga ⓘ
Mfecane → hasKeyFigure → Kalanga ⓘ
this entity surface form: Zwide kaLanga
Southern Bantu languages → includesLanguage → Kalanga ⓘ
Kalanga people → ethnonym → Kalanga ⓘ