Kwangali language
| Kwangali | |
|---|---|
| Rukwangali | |
| Native to | Namibia, Angola |
| Region | Okavango River |
Native speakers | 84,000 (2000)[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
- ↑ Kwangali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kwangali". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: 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
- Rukwangali/English for Children, Éditions du Cygne, 2013, ISBN 978-2-84924-310-7
- Biblical passages in Kwangali
| Official language | |
|---|---|
| Recognized regional | |
| Other Bantu languages | |
| Khoisan | |
| Sign languages | |
| Official language | |
|---|---|
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