Kwanyama dialect
| Kwanyama | |
|---|---|
| Oshikwanyama | |
| Native to | Namibia and Angola |
| Region | Ovamboland |
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Native speakers
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unknown (250,000 in Namibia (2006); 420,000 in Angola cited 1993)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | kj |
| ISO 639-2 | kua |
| ISO 639-3 | kua |
| Glottolog | kuan1247[2] |
R.21[3] |
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| Linguasphere | 05-PEA-aa |
Kwanyama or Oshikwanyama is a national language of Angola and Namibia. It is a standardized dialect of the Oshiwambo language, and is mutually intelligible with Oshindonga, the other Oshiwambo dialect with a standard written form.
The entire Christian Bible has been translated into Kwanyama and was first published in 1974 under the name Ombibeli by the South African Bible Society.[4]
References
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- ↑ Kwanyama at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ Ombibeli, 1974, front page
External links
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Kwanyama dialect test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
- Language map of Namibia
- Grammar and vocabulary (Spanish)
- PanAfrican L10n page on Kwanyama
- Omalinjongameno Ōngeleka. (Services of the Church in Kwanyama Authorised for Use in the Diocese of Damaraland, 1957) digitized by Richard Mammana 2015
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| Other Bantu languages | |
| Khoisan | |
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