The Tonga language of

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, or ''Gitonga'' (spelled ''Guitonga'' in Portuguese) is a

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spoken along the southern coast of the country. Often thought to be closest to Chopi to its south, the two languages have only a 44% lexical similarity.

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''Christian hymns, together with some of the Psalms of David in the language of the Ba Tonga, as spoken in the district of Inhambane, east Africa'' (1901)''Ruthe. Samuele: Ruth, and I. Samuel, chapters I to IV, in the Gitonga language'' (1902)''Itestamente lipya nya pfumu yatu Jesu Kristu: kanga ku lobidwego ki gitonga'' (1905)
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