XIZRONGA: Lidzrimi dzrezru, Pfindla dzrezru “Alhiwa dzrivoniwa ab’andla.” – Xihlayahlaya xa vazronga KUSUKELA 23 kuya ka 25 ka Mayu lwahundzriki kuve ni magovela ya wu4 ya kutwananisa matsralela ya tindzrimi ta Musambiki aUnivhersidadi Eduardo Mondlane, kaMaputsru. Nkongometo wa nhlengeletanu leyi afa kuli kubeka milawu ya matsralela lamafanaka ya mimpfumawulu ya tindzrimi letikhaneliwaka aMusambiki, lani xizronga, vhela, xinga dzrin’we dzra tone. Kukumeke tintlhazri ta kuhuma svikole swa le henhla, svizro sva mfumu ni vavulavuli va 17 wa tindzrimi letinghenisiwiki ka matsralela ya nawu. Magovela ya ku1 mave hi 1988, ya wu2 hi 1999, kasi ya wu3 mave hi 2008. Kulaviseliwa lesvaku kungali khale matsralela ya nawu matabekiwa ximfumu atikweni. Nchumu wun’we wuhlayiwiki amagoveleni hi lesvaku xizronga xiya xifa, svanghesvi vhanu valwaka vakhanela xiputukezi ni xichangana kaMaputsru. Lesvi svihlamalise mun’we wa vakumeki ka nhlengeletanu leyo hikusa, hi kuhlaya kwake, “hi v...
What's Ronga? Google the word “Ronga” and it won’t be long before you are directed to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronga_language ; https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Ronga ; https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ronga ; or https://omniglot.com/writing/ronga.htm . But it’s quite striking that so little is said about this language. For example, Wikipedia says that “Ronga (XiRonga; sometimes ShiRonga or GiRonga) is a south-eastern Bantu language in the Tswa–Ronga family 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”. Being a native speaker of Ronga myself, I wonder who calls it “GiRonga”, since I’ve never heard that. I also wonder what the “Konde” dialect mentioned by Wikipedia is, because I’ve never heard that either. According to the proceedings of the III Workshop on the Standardization of the ...