Ronga language

Ronga
Ronga
Native to	Mozambique, South Africa
Native speakers	720,000 (2006)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu Southern Bantu Tswa–Ronga Ronga; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rng
Glottolog	rong1268
Guthrie code	S.54
Linguasphere	99-AUT-dd; incl. varieties ; 99-AUT-dda...-dde

Ronga (XiRonga; sometimes ShiRonga or GiRonga) is a Bantu language of the Tswa–Ronga branch spoken just south of Maputo in Mozambique. It extends a little into South Africa. It has about 650,000 speakers in Mozambique and a further 90,000 in South Africa, with dialects including Konde, Putru and Kalanga.

The Swiss philologist Henri Alexandre Junod seems to have been the first linguist to have studied it, in the late 19th century.

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