Kwambi dialect

Kwambi
Oshikwambi
Native to Namibia and Angola
Region Ovamboland
Native speakers
33,000 (2006)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kwm
Glottolog kwam1251[2]
R.23[3]

Kwambi or Otshikwambi is a dialect of the Ovambo language spoken by the Kwambi tribe in Northern Namibia. Unlike Ndonga and Kwanyama it does not have a standardized written form in schools but is used and written in the Roman Catholic Church in Namibia.

References

  1. Kwambi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kwambi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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