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Consonants in Changana/Tsonga

South African Journal of African Languages, 2001
The article contains a first systematic description of the consonant phonemes in Changana/Tsonga, based mainly on standard grammars and dictionaries (Baumbach 1987, Cuenod 1967, Ribeiro 1965, Sitoe 1996). The number of distinctive phonemes is extremely high, around 125. The systems of stops and affricates are shown to be very complex.
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Possession music of the Shangana-Tsonga

African Music: Journal of the African Music Society, 1972
Exorcism {mancomane) is one of the more important musical practices among the Tsonga of Mozambique and the northern Transvaal, involving possession dancing, playing of the special ncomane tambourine, from which the rite obtains its name, and the singing of spirit-specific songs.
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Tonomorphology of the Tsonga noun

African Studies, 1959
SYNOPSIS Each syllable in Tsonga carries a toneme, either high or low. For disyllabic noun stems there are four possible combinations of these tonemes, i.e. four possible tonomorphemes. For trisyllabic stems there are eight possibilities and for quadrisyllable stems sixteen. Not all such theoretical possibilities seem to occur.
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Fonologiese sisteme van Afrikaans en Tsonga: ′n Vergelyking

South African Journal of Linguistics, 1989
Die fonetiese ontleding en beskrywing van die ‘aksent’ waarmee ′n taal deur sprekers met ′n vreemde moe-dertaal gepraat word, is betreklik moeilik. In hierdie studie word die fonologiese sisteme van Afrikaans en Tsonga vergelyk met die oog daarop om vas te stel watter aspekte van die fonetiek en fonologie van Afrikaans vir die Tsonga-moedertaalspreker ...
E. B. van Wyk, F. F. Odendal, N. L. Nkatini   +2 more
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SHANGANA-TSONGA IDEOPHONES AND THEIR TONES

Bantu Studies, 1941
(1941). SHANGANA-TSONGA IDEOPHONES AND THEIR TONES. Bantu Studies: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 205-244.
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Tumicla tsonga Volynkin & László 2018, sp. nov.

2018
Tumicla tsonga Volynkin & László, sp. nov. (Figs 3–5, 18, 26) Type material. Holotype (Figs 3, 18): ♂, Mozambique, 15m, Maputo Special Reserve, Ponta Milibangalala, (Dune Forest), 26°26'58.6''S, 32°55'29.8''E, 25–30.V.2017. Actinic Light Trap. Aristophanous, M., Laszlo, G., Miles, W., Vetina, A. leg., slide No.: AV3035♂ (coll. ANHRT). Paratypes 2 ♂, 11
Volynkin, Anton V., László, Gyula M.
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An augmentative noun class in Tsonga

African Studies, 1957
SYNOPSIS An augmentative noun class, not mentioned before by students of the language, has been discovered in Tsonga. It is reminiscent of class 21 as found in certain other Bantu languages, but the phonology of its prefix, ji‐, indicates that it cannot immediately be connected with class 21.
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Shangana-Tsonga drum and bow rhythms

African Music: Journal of the African Music Society, 1971
There are exactly four types of Tsonga drum, and four types of bow, and the prevalence of their sounds in Tsongaland outweighs that of any other musical instrument. The former are played mostly by women, the latter mostly by men, and the social role of each instrument is in sharp contrast to that of the ...
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The qualificative and the pronoun in Tsonga

African Studies, 1961
(1961). The qualificative and the pronoun in Tsonga. African Studies: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 175-193.
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Xizambi friction-bow music of the Shangana-Tsonga

African Music: Journal of the African Music Society, 1970
Tsonga drums, antelope horns, leg-rattles and whistles are generally used to accompany ritual dancing within the context of two of the three ritual institutions: khomba (puberty school) and mancomane (doctor’s ceremonies). Ngoma (circumcision school) is secret and therefore avoids their use.
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