| Ngoni | |
| Also Known As: | Songea |
| Nativename: | Chingoni, Xingoni |
| States: | Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi |
| Ethnicity: | Ngoni |
| Speakers: | 311,000 |
| Date: | 2006–2009 |
| Ref: | [1] |
| Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
| Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
| Fam3: | Volta-Congo |
| Fam4: | Benue–Congo |
| Fam5: | Bantoid |
| Fam6: | Southern Bantoid |
| Fam7: | Bantu |
| Fam8: | Northeast Bantu |
| Fam9: | Southern Tanzanian Highlands Bantu |
| Fam10: | Manda-Ngoni |
| Lc1: | xnj |
| Ld1: | Tanzanian Ngoni |
| Lc2: | xnq |
| Ld2: | Mozambican Ngoni |
| Glotto: | ngon1269 |
| Glottorefname: | Tanzania-Mozambique Ngoni |
| Guthrie: | N.12 |
Ngoni is a Bantu language of Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambique. There is a 'hard break' across the Tanzanian - Mozambican border, with marginal mutual intelligibility. It is one of several languages of the Ngoni people, who descend from the Nguni people of southern Africa, and the language is a member of the Nguni subgroup, with the variety spoken in Malawi sometimes referred to as a dialect of Zulu.[2] [3] Other languages spoken by the Ngoni may also be referred to as "Chingoni"; many Ngoni in Malawi, for instance, speak Chewa, and other Ngoni speak Tumbuka or Nsenga.