Tswa–Ronga languages

E163038

The Tswa–Ronga languages are a closely related group of Bantu languages spoken primarily in southern Africa, including varieties such as Tsonga and Ronga.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Tswa–Ronga languages canonical 3
Nyasa languages 1
Tswa-Ronga languages 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language group
Southern Bantu languages
arealDistribution Lowveld region
surface form: Limpopo valley region

coastal Mozambique
arealFeature Sotho–Tswana–Nguni contact zone
closelyRelatedTo Nguni languages
Sotho–Tswana languages
glottologCode tswa1252
guthrieClassification S.50
hasPart Changana language
Djonga language
Hlengwe variety
Kande language
Luleke language
Ndxhonge language
Ronga language
Shangaan variety
Tsonga language
Tswa language
Xironga variety
Xitsonga variety
Xitswa variety
ISO639-3CollectiveCode tso (for Tsonga core variety)
languageFamily Bantu languages
surface form: Bantu

Niger–Congo languages
surface form: Niger–Congo
linguisticBranchOf Southern Bantu
region southeastern Africa
spokenIn Eswatini
Mozambique
South Africa
Southern Africa
Zimbabwe
standardizedVariety Changana
Xitsonga
subclassOf Atlantic–Congo languages
Bantu languages
Benue–Congo languages
Guthrie S.50 languages
Niger–Congo languages
Southern Bantoid
surface form: Southern Bantoid languages
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
noun class system
tone languages
usedByEthnicGroup Ronga people
Tsonga people
Tswa people
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Southern Bantu hasMemberLanguage Tswa–Ronga languages
Sena group Tswa–Ronga languages
this entity surface form: Nyasa languages
Changana subfamily Tswa–Ronga languages
Tsonga language subfamily Tswa–Ronga languages
Tswa language subfamilyOf Tswa–Ronga languages
this entity surface form: Tswa-Ronga languages