Tonga language (Zambia)
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| Tonga (Bantu group M) Tonga |
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| Spoken in: | Zambia, Zimbabwe | |
| Total speakers: | 1,517,000 one of the key lingua franca in Zambia and parts of Zimbabwe and Mozambique) | |
| Language family: | Niger-Congo Atlantic-Congo Volta-Congo Benue-Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Narrow Bantu Central Narrow Bantu Group M Lenje-Tonga (M.60) Tonga (Bantu group M) |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language of: | Zambia | |
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | bnt | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | toi | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Tonga is a Bantu Language primarily spoken by the Tonga tribe of the South, Southern and Western provinces of Zambia and Northern Zimbabwe (although also spoken by the Toka and Leya, as well as many bilingual Zambians and Zimbabweans.) It is one of the major lingua francas in Zambia, after Bemba and Nyanja.
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