Tonga language (Mozambique)
{{Short description|Bantu language spoken in Mozambique}}
{{for|other languages called "Tonga"|Tonga language (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Tonga
|altname=Tonga-Inhambane
|nativename=Gitonga
|states=Mozambique
|speakers={{sigfig|327,000|2}}
|date=2017
|ref=e26
|familycolor=Niger-Congo
|fam2=Atlantic–Congo
|fam3=Benue–Congo
|fam4=Bantoid
|fam5=Bantu
|fam6=Southern Bantu
|iso3=toh
|glotto=gito1238
|glottorefname=Gitonga
|guthrie=S.62
}}
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.
References
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External links
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=205AAAAAYAAJ 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)]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=zY0NAAAAYAAJ Ruthe. Samuele: Ruth, and I. Samuel, chapters I to IV, in the Gitonga language (1902)]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=8dA2AAAAMAAJ Itestamente lipya nya pfumu yatu Jesu Kristu: kanga ku lobidwego ki gitonga (1905)]
{{Narrow Bantu languages (Zones N–S)}}