| Rongga | |
| Region: | central Flores |
| State: | Indonesia |
| Speakers: | 4,000 |
| Date: | 2005 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
| Fam3: | Central–Eastern MP |
| Fam4: | Sumba–Flores |
| Fam5: | Ende–Manggarai |
| Fam6: | Central Flores |
| Iso3: | ror |
| Glotto: | rong1269 |
| Glottorefname: | Rongga |
Rongga is a language of central Flores, in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. Rongga is closely related to Ngadha, and more distantly to Manggarai.[1] [2]
Locally, it is considered part of the Manggarai culture; however, its closer linguistic relatives include Ngadha and Lio, both belonging to the Central Flores subgroup.[1] Typologically, it is an isolating language.[3] Like other Central Flores languages, it uses elements of a base-5 numeral system, possibly exhibiting the influence of a hypothetical Papuan linguistic substratum.[4]
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.[5] [6]
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. I Wayan Arka . Bahasa Rongga: Deskripsi, Tipologi dan Teori . Atma Jaya University Press . 2016 . 978-602-8904-84-1 . Jakarta . Indonesian . Rongga Language: Description, Typology, and Theory.
. I Wayan Arka . I Wayan Arka . Margaret Florey . Margaret Florey . Endangered languages of Austronesia . Maintaining Vera in Rongga: Struggles over Culture, Tradition, and Language in Modern Manggarai, Flores, Indonesia . 2010 . 90–109 . 978-0-19-954454-7 . New York . Oxford University Press . 796288873 . en .