Tonga language (Malawi)

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The Tonga language (Malawi) is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Tonga people of northern Malawi, distinct from other similarly named Tonga languages in southern Africa.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
language of Malawi
natural language
alternativeName Chitonga (Malawi) NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Chewa language NERFINISHED
Tumbuka language
country Malawi NERFINISHED
distinctFrom Tonga language (Botswana) NERFINISHED
Tonga language (Mozambique) NERFINISHED
Tonga language (Zambia and Zimbabwe)
ethnicGroup Tonga people (Malawi) NERFINISHED
GuthrieCode N15
hasBasicWordOrder SVO
hasGlottocode tumb1250
hasGlottologName Tonga (Malawi)
hasLexicalSimilarityWith other Nyasa Bantu languages
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
noun class system
hasPhonologicalFeature tone language
hasSpeakerCommunity Lake Malawi lakeshore communities in northern Malawi
hasStatus minority language in Malawi
ISO639-3Code tog
languageFamily Atlantic–Congo languages NERFINISHED
Bantoid languages
Bantu languages
Benue–Congo languages NERFINISHED
Niger–Congo languages
name Tonga NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguage Chewa language
Ngoni language NERFINISHED
Tumbuka language NERFINISHED
region Northern Region of Malawi NERFINISHED
spokenAlong Lake Malawi NERFINISHED
spokenIn northern Malawi
spokenInDistrict Nkhata Bay District NERFINISHED
Rumphi District NERFINISHED
subgroup Nyasa Bantu languages NERFINISHED
usedBy Tonga people (Malawi) NERFINISHED
usedIn local education in parts of northern Malawi
oral tradition of Tonga people (Malawi)
religious activities in Tonga communities (Malawi)
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 languages (southern Africa) areNotTheSameAs Tonga language (Malawi)
Tonga (Zimbabwe) isDistinctFrom Tonga language (Malawi)
Sena–Nyanja languages hasMemberLanguage Tonga language (Malawi)