Kwangali language
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| Kwangali | |
|---|---|
| Rukwangali | |
| Native to | Namibia, Angola |
| Region | Okavango River |
Native speakers | 152,000 (2018)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kwn |
| Glottolog | kwan1273[2] |
K.33[3] | |
Kwangali, or RuKwangali, is a Bantu language spoken by 85,000 people along the Okavango River in Namibia, where it is a national language, and in Angola. It is one of several Bantu languages of the Okavango which have click consonants; these are the dental clicks c and gc, along with prenasalization and aspiration. It also has a nasal glottal approximant.
Maho (2009) includes Mbundza as a dialect, but excludes Sambyu, which he includes in Manyo.
References[edit]
- ^ "Kwangali". Ethnologue. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kwangali". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- Dammann, Ernst (1957). Studien zum Kwangali: Grammatik, Texte, Glossar. Hamburg: Cram, de Gruyter
- Derek Nurse & Gérard Philippson, The Bantu languages, 2003:569.
Books[edit]
- Rukwangali/English for Children, Éditions du Cygne, 2013, ISBN 978-2-84924-310-7
- Biblical passages in Kwangali
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| Other Bantu languages | |
| Khoisan | |
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