Kwangali language

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

  1. ↑ "Kwangali". Ethnologue. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kwangali". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ 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


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