The most important exceptions: the letter "c" before "i" or "e" is pronounced like a "ch," "g" before an "i" or "e" is pronounced like the g in "general," "h" is always silent, "r" is almost always rolled and "z" is pronounced like the "ds" in "lads" at the beginning of the sentence, and like the "ts" in sets in all other cases.
Hi minkarhi ya xikhale, Vatsonga a va tsakela ku ti tiva tani hi "va Tonga," "Vadzonga," kumbe "va Rhonga," kambe hinkwaswo swi vula rixaka rin'we.[4] Hi vutsalwa bya xi Nguni, "Tonga" yi tsariwa yi ri na "h" tani hi leswi eka ririmi ra Vanguni marito yo sungula hi "T" ya landzela hi "h" - hikoho kwalano Vanguni va ri tsala tani hi "Thonga," loko va vula Tonga.