Tonga language (Mozambique)

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The Tonga language of Mozambique is a Bantu language spoken primarily in southern Mozambique, distinct from the similarly named Tonga language of Zimbabwe and Zambia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
human language
alsoKnownAs Bitonga NERFINISHED
Cbitonga
Citonga
Gitonga NERFINISHED
Gitonga (Mozambique) NERFINISHED
continent Africa
country Mozambique NERFINISHED
distinctFrom Tonga language (Zambia and Zimbabwe) NERFINISHED
glottologName Tonga (Mozambique) NERFINISHED
hasEthnologueEntry Tonga (Mozambique) language
hasGlottocode tong1327
hasLanguageCodeStandard ISO 639-3 NERFINISHED
hasLanguageFamilyCode Guthrie S.62
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
hasPhonologicalFeature noun class system
tone language
hasWordOrder SVO
isNotMutuallyIntelligibleWith Tonga language (Zambia and Zimbabwe) NERFINISHED
ISO639-3Code toh
languageFamily Bantu languages
macrolanguageOf Gitonga dialect cluster NERFINISHED
region Southern Africa
spokenAlong Mozambique Channel coast NERFINISHED
spokenIn southern Mozambique
spokenInOrNear Gaza Province NERFINISHED
Inhambane Province NERFINISHED
subfamily Atlantic–Congo languages NERFINISHED
Benue–Congo languages NERFINISHED
Niger–Congo languages NERFINISHED
Southern Bantu languages NERFINISHED
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Tonga (Zimbabwe) isDistinctFrom Tonga language (Mozambique)