Guitonga language (Mozambique)
For other languages called "Tonga", see Tonga language (disambiguation).
| Tonga | |
|---|---|
| Tonga-Inhambane | |
| Gitonga | |
| Native to | Mozambique |
Native speakers | 380,000 (2006)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
toh |
| Glottolog |
gito1238[2] |
S.62[3] | |
Guitonga (sometimes spelled Gitonga, also less frequently also called Tonga) is a Bantu language spoken along the southern coast of Mozambique. Often thought to be closest to Chopi to its south, the two languages have only a 44% lexical similarity.
References
- ↑ Tonga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Gitonga". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
External links
- Christian hymns, together with some of the Psalms of David in the language of the Ba Tonga, as spoken in the district of Inhambane, east Africa (1901)
- Ruthe. Samuele: Ruth, and I. Samuel, chapters I to IV, in the Gitonga language (1902)
- Itestamente lipya nya pfumu yatu Jesu Kristu: kanga ku lobidwego ki gitonga (1905)
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