Xichangana

E547889

Xichangana is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Mozambique and parts of South Africa and Eswatini, closely related to Tsonga.

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Label Occurrences
Xichangana canonical 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
natural language
alternativeName Changana NERFINISHED
Xitsonga Changana NERFINISHED
belongsToMacroLanguage Tsonga (Xitsonga) NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Tsonga NERFINISHED
hasGrammarFeature object concords
subject concords
verb derivational extensions
hasISO639-3Code tsn (cluster-related; Tsonga/Changana grouping)
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Xitsonga
Xitsonga dialects in South Africa
hasLinguisticType agglutinative language
tonal language
hasLoanwordsFrom Portuguese NERFINISHED
Zulu and other Nguni languages (in border areas)
hasMorphology prefixing
suffixing
hasNounClasses multiple grammatical noun classes
hasNounClassSystem yes
hasOrthographicBasis Portuguese-influenced Latin orthography (in Mozambique)
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone
rich consonant inventory
hasStatus regional language in southern Mozambique
languageFamily Bantu NERFINISHED
mutuallyIntelligibleWith other Tsonga varieties (to a significant degree)
neighboringLanguages Ronga NERFINISHED
Swati (siSwati)
Tswa NERFINISHED
Zulu NERFINISHED
partOf Tsonga language cluster NERFINISHED
region Southern Africa
spokenIn Eswatini NERFINISHED
Mozambique NERFINISHED
South Africa NERFINISHED
spokenPrimarilyIn southern Mozambique NERFINISHED
subfamily Southern Bantu languages NERFINISHED
usedAs home language in many communities
usedByEthnicGroup Changana people NERFINISHED
usedInCountry Kingdom of Eswatini NERFINISHED
Republic of Mozambique NERFINISHED
Republic of South Africa NERFINISHED
usedInDomain daily communication
local media (in some areas)
music and songs
oral tradition
usesWordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Changana hasAlternativeName Xichangana