Guitonga language (Mozambique)

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

  1. Tonga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Gitonga". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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