Kwanyama

Kwanyama Oshikwanyama
Spoken in:	Namibia and Angola
Region:	Ovamboland
Total speakers:	421,000 in Angola
Language family:	Niger-Congo Atlantic-Congo Volta-Congo Benue-Congo Bantoid Southern Narrow Bantu Central Zone R Kwanyama
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	`kj`
ISO 639-2:	`kua`
ISO/FDIS 639-3:	`kua`
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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 Ndonga, the only other Oshiwambo dialect to have a standard written form.

Kwanyama edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[edit] References

Crane, Thera, Lindgren-Streicher, Karl; Wingo, Andy (2004). Hai ti! A Beginner's Guide to Oshikwanyama.
(2005) Gordon, Raymond, G., Jr.: Ethnologue: Languages of the World,, Fifteenth edition, Dallas, Tex.: SIL International.
Zimmerman, W., Hasheela, P. (1998). Oshikwanyama Grammar. Windhoek: Gamsberg Macmillan.