Kalanga
Kalanga is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Botswana.
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Kalanga, or TjiKalanga (in Zimbabwe), is a Bantu language spoken by the Kalanga people in Botswana and Zimbabwe which belongs to the Shonic (Shona-Nyai) branch of the Bantu languages, within the Niger-Congo languages. It has an extensive phoneme inventory, which includes palatalised, velarised, aspirated and breathy-voiced consonants, as well as whistled sibilants.
Kalanga is recognized as an official language by the Zimbabwean Constitution of 2013 and is taught in schools in areas where its speakers predominate. The iKalanga language is closely related to the Nambya, TshiVenda, and KheLobedu languages of Zimbabwe and South Africa.
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Words in Kalanga
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | thu* | |
| name | zina* | |
| eye | eSo* | |
| ear | eno* | |
| nose | milo* | |
| tooth | Zino* | |
| tongue | limi* | |
| hand | aZa* | |
| blood | lopa* | |
| bone | fupa* | |
| skin | ganda* | |
| knee | dwi* | |
| breast | Zamu* | |
| liver | lopa* | |
| water | vula | |
| fire | moto* | |
| sun | Zuva* | |
| star | 5e5eci* | |
| stone | gbe* | |
| mountain | dombo* | |
| tree | ti* | |
| leaf | Zani* | |
| night | siku* | |
| dog | gba* | |
| fish | hove* | |
| louse | nda* | |
| one | nompela* | |
| I | imi* | |
| we | iswi* | |
| hear | wha* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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