Nguni languages

E25728
Bantu language group language family subgroup

The Nguni languages are a group of closely related Bantu languages of southern Africa that include major tongues such as Zulu, Xhosa, Swati, and Ndebele.

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Observed surface forms (6)

Surface form Occurrences
Gcaleka dialect 1
Nguni 1
Nguni language continuum 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language group ⓘ
language family subgroup ⓘ
areAgglutinativeLanguages true ⓘ
areAssociatedWithEthnicGroup Ndebele people ⓘ
Swazi people ⓘ
Xhosa people ⓘ
Zulu people ⓘ
areCloselyRelated each other ⓘ
areDividedInto Nguni languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Tekela Nguni languages

Nguni languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Zunda Nguni languages
areMutuallyIntelligibleToDegree Ndebele language ⓘ
Swati language ⓘ
Xhosa ⓘ
surface form: Xhosa language

Zulu ⓘ
surface form: Zulu language
areSpokenBy Zulu people ⓘ
surface form: Nguni peoples
areTonalLanguages true ⓘ
hasMajorLanguage Northern Ndebele ⓘ
surface form: Ndebele language

Swati language ⓘ
Xhosa ⓘ
surface form: Xhosa language

Zulu ⓘ
surface form: Zulu language
hasMember Southern Ndebele ⓘ
surface form: Ndebele language

Northern Ndebele ⓘ
surface form: Northern Ndebele language

Southern Ndebele ⓘ
surface form: Southern Ndebele language

Swati language ⓘ
Xhosa ⓘ
surface form: Xhosa language

Zulu ⓘ
surface form: Zulu language
haveNounClassSystem true ⓘ
ISO639Grouping nguni (informal subgroup) ⓘ
languageBranch Atlantic–Congo languages ⓘ
Benue–Congo languages ⓘ
Southern Bantoid languages ⓘ
languageFamily Niger–Congo languages ⓘ
region eastern seaboard of South Africa ⓘ
shareGrammaticalFeatures complex verb morphology ⓘ
sharePhonologicalFeatures click consonants ⓘ
spokenIn Eswatini ⓘ
Mozambique ⓘ
South Africa ⓘ
Southern Africa ⓘ
Zambia ⓘ
Zimbabwe ⓘ
subclassOf Bantu languages ⓘ
Southern Bantu languages ⓘ
TekelaNguniIncludes Southern Ndebele ⓘ
surface form: Southern Ndebele language

Swati language ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
ZundaNguniIncludes Xhosa ⓘ
surface form: Xhosa language

Zulu ⓘ
surface form: Zulu language

Referenced by (17)

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

Nguni languages → areDividedInto → Nguni languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Zunda Nguni languages
Nguni languages → areDividedInto → Nguni languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Tekela Nguni languages
Xhosa → hasDialect → Nguni languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Gcaleka dialect
Southern Bantu → hasSubgroup → Nguni languages ⓘ
Southern Ndebele → isPartOf → Nguni languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Nguni language group
Zulu → isPartOf → Nguni languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Nguni language continuum
Swazi people → languageBranch → Nguni languages ⓘ
Xhosa people → languageFamily → Nguni languages ⓘ
Zulu people → languageFamily → Nguni languages ⓘ
Southern Ndebele → languageGroup → Nguni languages ⓘ
Thembu people → languageGroup → Nguni languages ⓘ
nde → languageSubfamily → Nguni languages ⓘ
Northern Ndebele → subclassOf → Nguni languages ⓘ
Northern Ndebele → subfamily → Nguni languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Nguni
Swati → subfamily → Nguni languages ⓘ
Xhosa → subfamily → Nguni languages ⓘ
Zulu → subgroup → Nguni languages ⓘ