Ndonga language
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| Ndonga Owambo |
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| Spoken in: | Namibia and southern Angola | |
| Region: | Ovamboland | |
| Total speakers: | 690,000 | |
| Language family: | Niger-Congo Atlantic-Congo Volta-Congo Benue-Congo Southern Bantoid Narrow Bantu Ndonga |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | ng | |
| ISO 639-2: | ndo | |
| ISO 639-3: | ndo | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Ndonga (also called Oshiwambo, Otjiwambo, or Owambo) is a Bantu language spoken in Namibia and some parts of Angola. It is grouped with the closely related Kwanyama. The total number of Ndonga speakers is estimated to be roughly 690,000.
The Rev. Martti Rautanen, a Christian missionary, translated the Bible into the Ndonga language [1].
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