Atlantic-Congo · ISO 639-3 rng
Ronga Language XiRonga
Ronga is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken by about 1.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Ronga is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Ronga
Language family
- Atlantic-Congo
- Volta-Congo
- Benue-Congo
- Bantoid
- Southern Bantoid
- Narrow Bantu
- East Bantu
- Southern Bantu
- Nuclear Southern Bantu
- Dimsuffix Southern Bantu
- Nguni-Tsonga-Copi
- Tsonga-Copi
- Tswa-Ronga (S.50)
- Tsongan
- Ronga
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Ronga language
Ronga (XiRonga) is spoken by about 1.0 million people, which makes it the 480th most spoken language in the world — just behind Rakhine (1.0 million) and ahead of Songe (1.0 million). It belongs to the Atlantic-Congo language family and, more precisely, to the Tsongan group within the Benue-Congo branch.
Where is Ronga spoken?
Ronga is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Mozambique (1.1 million).
Ronga is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Ronga is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Tsonga, Tswa, Zulu, Xhosa, Swati, North Ndebele and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 rng.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.