Gwembe Tonga

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Gwembe Tonga is a regional dialect of the Tonga language spoken primarily by communities in the Gwembe Valley region of southern Zambia.

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Label Occurrences
Gwembe Tonga canonical 1

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Statements (25)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
regional dialect
closelyRelatedTo other Tonga dialects of Zambia
continent Africa
country Zambia
ethnicGroup Tonga people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Gwembe Valley Tonga NERFINISHED
hasDialectalRelationWith Plateau Tonga NERFINISHED
Valley Tonga NERFINISHED
hasLanguageCode toi (macrolanguage Tonga)
hasLinguisticFeature agglutinative morphology
noun class system
hasPhonologicalFeature tonal language
hasSociolinguisticStatus regional variety of Tonga in Zambia
languageFamily Bantu languages
Niger–Congo languages
partOf Tonga dialect continuum
regionType valley region
spokenIn Gwembe Valley NERFINISHED
Southern Province, Zambia NERFINISHED
southern Zambia NERFINISHED
subdivisionOf Tonga language NERFINISHED
usedBy rural communities in Gwembe Valley
usedFor everyday communication
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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

Tonga (Zambia) hasDialects Gwembe Tonga