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Rongga
Native toIndonesia
Regioncentral Flores
EthnicityRongga
Native speakers
4,000 (2005)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3ror
Glottologrong1269
ELPRongga

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]

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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