Northern Ndebele

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Northern Ndebele is a Bantu language of the Nguni group spoken primarily in southwestern Zimbabwe and closely related to Zulu.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
Nguni language
natural language
alsoKnownAs Northern Ndebele
surface form: Ndebele

Northern Ndebele
surface form: Zimbabwean Ndebele

Northern Ndebele
surface form: isiNdebele
closelyRelatedTo Southern Ndebele
Zulu
countryStatusInZimbabwe recognized indigenous language
ethnicGroup Northern Ndebele self-linksurface differs
surface form: Northern Ndebele people
family Niger–Congo languages
surface form: Niger–Congo
hasFeature agglutinative morphology
click consonants
noun class system
tone language
hasGrammaticalSimilarityTo Zulu
hasLexicalSimilarityTo Zulu
hasPhonologicalSimilarityTo Zulu
languageCodeISO639-1 nd
languageCodeISO639-2 nde
languageCodeISO639-3 nde
primaryCountry Zimbabwe
region Bulawayo
Matabeleland North
Matabeleland South
southwestern Zimbabwe
spokenIn Botswana
South Africa
standardizationStatus standardized orthography exists
standardVarietyBasedOn speech of the Ndebele people of Matabeleland
subclassOf Bantu languages
Nguni languages
subfamily Niger–Congo languages
surface form: Atlantic–Congo

Bantu
Niger–Congo languages
surface form: Benue–Congo

Nguni languages
surface form: Nguni

Southern Bantoid
Southern Bantu
usedAs vernacular language in Matabeleland
usedIn education in parts of Zimbabwe
print media in Zimbabwe
radio broadcasting in Zimbabwe
writingSystem Latin script

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

Nkayi hasPredominantLanguage Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Ndebele
Nkayi languageUsed Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Ndebele
Esigodini languageUsed Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Ndebele
Umguza languageUsed Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Ndebele
Filabusi hasLanguage Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Ndebele
Midlands languageSpoken Northern Ndebele
subject surface form: Midlands Province
this entity surface form: Ndebele
Nguni people mainLanguage Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Northern Ndebele language
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality Council hasOfficialLanguage Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Ndebele
Welshman Ncube languageSpoken Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Ndebele
MDC languageOfWorkOrName Northern Ndebele
subject surface form: Movement for Democratic Change
this entity surface form: Ndebele
MDC–T women’s assembly language Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Ndebele
Harare Province language Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Ndebele
Zimbabwean general election, 2005 languageOfCampaigning Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Ndebele
siSwati closelyRelatedTo Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Ndebele
Plumtree Border Post hasLanguage Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Ndebele
Joshua Nkomo languageSpoken Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Ndebele
Bosso languageOfNicknameOrigin Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Ndebele
Tshilamoya languageOfOrigin Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Ndebele
Solusi Mission languageUsed Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Ndebele
Lobengula ethnicGroup Northern Ndebele
Lobengula languageSpoken Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Ndebele
House of Khumalo languageOfPeople Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Northern Ndebele language
House of Khumalo ethnicIdentity Northern Ndebele
Khumalo dynasty language Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Northern Ndebele language
Fulatha Tshabalala ethnicity Northern Ndebele
Beitbridge District languageUsed Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Ndebele
Kwekwe languageSpoken Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Ndebele
Gokwe languageSpoken Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Ndebele
Mwenezi District languageSpoken Northern Ndebele
this entity surface form: Ndebele