Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Tsonga or Xitsonga language is spoken in southern Africa by the Tsonga people, also known as the Shangaan. Tsonga belongs to the Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo languages. The language of the Tsonga people is wrongly called Xichangana (or "Shangaan" by outsiders) because the people were under the Leadership of Soshangana "Manukusa" (Zulu). Shangaan has different variants: eg Tsonga, Ndawu, Ronga and xiTswa. In South Africa most of the VaTsonga now live in places like e.g.