Kalanga^{[pronunciation?]}, or TjiKalanga (in Zimbabwe), is a Bantu language spoken by the Kalanga people in Botswana and Zimbabwe. It has an extensive phoneme inventory, which includes palatalised, velarised, aspirated and breathy-voiced consonants,^[3] as well as whistled sibilants.

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Kalanga
TjiKalanga/Ikalanga
Native to	Zimbabwe, Botswana
Region	SouthWest parts of Zimbabwe Central, North Central and NorthEast Botswana
Ethnicity	Kalanga people
Native speakers	700,000 in Zimbabwe, 850,000 in Botswana (2012-2015)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantu Shona group (S.10) Kalanga
Official status
Official language in	Zimbabwe (both Kalanga and Nambya) Botswana-recognized language nationally.
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: kck – Kalanga nmq – Nambya
Glottolog	kala1405
Guthrie code	S.16[2]
Linguasphere	99-AUT-ai

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Kalanga is recognised as an official language by the Zimbabwean Constitution of 2013 and is taught in schools in areas where its speakers predominate. The iKalanga language is closely related to the Nambya, TshiVenda, and KheLobedu languages of Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Linguists place Kalanga (S.16 in Guthrie's classification) and Nambya (in the Hwange region of Zimbabwe) as the western branch of the Shona group (or Shonic, or Shona-Nyai) group of languages, collectively coded as S.10.

Kalanga has a dialectal variation between its Botswana and Zimbabwean varieties and they use slightly different orthographies. Historically, Wentzel mentioned Kalanga proper in the east and Lilima (Tjililima, Humbe) on the west, as well as varieties that are now rare or extinct: Nyai (Rozvi), Lemba (Remba), Lembethu (Rembethu), Twamamba (Xwamamba), Pfumbi, Jaunda (Jawunda, Jahunda), and †Romwe, †Peri, †Talahundra (Talaunda).^[2][4]