Editing Kalanga language (section)

{{Short description|Bantu language of Zimbabwe and Botswana}}
{{distinguish|Kalagan language|Zezuru language}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Kalanga
| nativename       = TjiKalanga/Ikalanga
| pronunciation    = 
| states           = [[Zimbabwe]], [[Botswana]]
| region           = SouthWest parts of Zimbabwe
Central, North Central and NorthEast Botswana
| ethnicity        = [[Kalanga people]]
| speakers         = 700,000 in Zimbabwe,<br/>850,000 in Botswana
| date             = 2012-2015
| ref              = <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/kck|title=Kalanga|work=Ethnologue|access-date=2018-08-14|language=en}}</ref>
| familycolor      = Niger-Congo
| fam2             = [[Atlantic–Congo languages|Atlantic–Congo]]
| fam3             = [[Benue–Congo languages|Benue–Congo]]
| fam4             = [[Southern Bantoid languages|Southern]]
| fam5             = [[Bantu languages|Bantu]]
| fam6             = [[Shona languages|Shona group (S.10)]]
| nation           = {{flag|Zimbabwe}} (both Kalanga and Nambya)
Botswana-recognized language nationally.
| lc1              = kck
| ld1              = Kalanga
| lc2              = nmq
| ld2              = Nambya
| lingua           = 99-AUT-ai
| guthrie          = S.16
| glotto           = kala1405
| glottorefname    = Kalanga–Nambya
}}

'''Kalanga'''{{Pronunciation needed|date=June 2025}}, or '''TjiKalanga''' (in Zimbabwe), is a [[Bantu language]] spoken by the [[Kalanga people]] in [[Botswana]] and [[Zimbabwe]] which belongs to the [[Shona language|Shonic(Shona-Nyai)]] group of Language. It has an extensive phoneme inventory, which includes [[Palatal consonant|palatalised]], [[Velar consonant|velarised]], [[Aspirated consonant|aspirated]] and [[Breathy voiced|breathy-voiced consonants]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Ikalanga phonetics and phonology: a synchronic and diachronic study.|last=Mathangwane|first=Joyce T.|publisher=Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.|year=1999}}</ref> as well as [[whistled sibilant]]s.

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 language|Nambya]], [[TshiVenda]], and [[KheLobedu language|KheLobedu]] languages of Zimbabwe and [[South Africa]].