Rongga language
Austronesian language spoken in Flores, Indonesia
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Rongga is a language of central Flores, in East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. Rongga is closely related to Ngadha, and more distantly to Manggarai.[2][3]
| Rongga | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | central Flores |
| Ethnicity | Rongga |
Native speakers | 4,000 (2005)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ror |
| Glottolog | rong1269 |
| ELP | Rongga |
Locally, it is considered part of the Manggarai culture;[4] however, its closer linguistic relatives include Ngadha and Lio, both belonging to the Central Flores subgroup.[2] Typologically, it is an isolating language.[4] Like other Central Flores languages, it uses elements of a base-5 numeral system, possibly exhibiting the influence of a hypothetical Papuan linguistic substratum.[5]
When written, it is spelled with Indonesian-like orthographic conventions. Digraphs such as zh, dh and bh are used to record sounds specific to this language.[6][7]
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