Kwambi dialect
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| Kwambi | |
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| Oshikwambi | |
| Native to | Namibia and Angola |
| Region | Ovamboland |
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Native speakers
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33,000 (2006)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kwm |
| Glottolog | kwam1251[2] |
R.23[3] |
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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)
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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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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