Language code: ts
Technical information about ISO 639 language code ts
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The table below provides technical details for the Tsonga language, designated by the ts code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Tsonga Native Xitsonga |
| Family | Bantu |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | GwambaChangana (Shangaan)RongaHlanganuHlave |
| Related languages | TswaRongaChopi |
| Key facts | Belongs to the Southern Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo familyOrthography was first systematized by Swiss missionaries in the late 1800sHas two contrastive tones that carry lexical and grammatical meaningPossesses nasalised implosive consonants uncommon in many neighbouring languagesUtilises an extensive noun-class agreement system typical of Bantu languages |
| Sample phrase | Avuxeni, xana u njhani? |
| Character encodings | |
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Tsonga belongs to the Niger-Congo language family, more specifically to the Bantu subgroup. It is one of the official languages in South Africa and is also spoken in some parts of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. It is written using the Latin script (Tsonga alphabet). It is estimated that there are around 10 million speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Tsonga speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ