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Kalanga

Bantu language of Zimbabwe and Botswana
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Kalanga

Summary

Kalanga is a language[1]. Kalanga ranks in the top 4% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (244 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Kalanga is in the country of Botswana[3].
  • Kalanga is in the country of Zimbabwe[4].
  • Kalanga's instance of is recorded as language[5].
  • Kalanga's instance of is recorded as modern language[6].
  • Kalanga is a type of Shona languages[7].
  • Kalanga's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Kalanga language[8].
  • Kalanga's indigenous to is recorded as Botswana[9].
  • Kalanga's indigenous to is recorded as Matabeleland North Province[10].
  • Kalanga's indigenous to is recorded as Matabeleland South Province[11].
  • Kalanga's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/KCK[12].
  • Kalanga's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 5 Developing[13].
  • Kalanga's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[14].

Why It Matters

Kalanga ranks in the top 4% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (244 views/month).[2] Kalanga has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] Kalanga is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

Botswana Zimbabwe

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Country → Botswana, Zimbabwe
    Instance of → —
    Indigenous to → Botswana, Matabeleland North Province, Matabeleland South Province
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007556405305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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