Kwambi dialect
Kwambi | |
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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
- ↑ Kwambi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kwambi". 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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