Tonga | |
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Tonga-Inhambane | |
Gitonga | |
Native to | Mozambique |
Native speakers | 330,000 (2017)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | toh |
Glottolog | gito1238 |
S.62 [2] |
The Tonga language of Mozambique, or Gitonga (spelled Guitonga in Portuguese) is a Bantu language spoken along the southern coast of the country. Often thought to be closest to Chopi to its south, the two languages have only a 44% lexical similarity.