- Ronga
:"For the village in Bangladesh, see
Ronga, Bangladesh Ronga (XiRonga; sometimes ShiRonga or GiRonga) is a South-Eastern Bantu language in theTswa-Ronga family spoken just South ofMaputo inMozambique . It extends a little intoSouth Africa . It has about 650,000 speakers in Mozambique and a further 90,000 in South Africa, with dialects includingKonde ,Putru andKalanga .The French philologist Junod seems to have been the first linguist to have studied it in the late 19th century.
Its alphabet is based on that of Tsonga as provided by Methodist missionaries and Portuguese settlers.
Grammar
Ronga is so close to Tsonga that census officials often get confused; its noun class system is very similar and its verbal forms are almost identical. Its main difference is a much greater influence from Portuguese, by virtue of being centred near the capital Maputo (formerly Lourenço Marques). Its Ethnologue index is [rng] .
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