Fwe language
Fwe | |
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Chifwe | |
Region | Okavango River, Namibia |
Native speakers | 10,200 (2006)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
fwe |
Glottolog |
fwee1238 [2] |
K.402 [3] |
Fwe, or Chifwe, is a Bantu language spoken by 10,000 people along the Okavango River in Namibia and in the Western Province in Zambia. It is closely related to Kuhane, and is one of several Bantu languages of the Okavango which have click consonants.
References
- ↑ Fwe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Fwe". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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Other Bantu languages | |
Khoisan | |
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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