| Ronga | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Mozambique, South Africa |
Native speakers | 720,000 (2006)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | rng |
| Glottolog | rong1268 |
S.54[2] | |
| 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.