Ndonga dialect

Ndonga
Owambo
Spoken in Namibia and southern Angola
Region Ovamboland
Native speakers 1,070,000  (date missing)
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-1 ng
ISO 639-2 ndo
ISO 639-3 ndo
Linguasphere 05-PEA-aa

Ndonga (also called Oshiwambo, Otjiwambo, or Owambo) is a Bantu language spoken in Namibia and some parts of Angola. It is a standardized dialect of the Ovambo language, and is mutually intelligible with Kwanyama, the other Ovambo dialect with a standard written form. The total number of Ndonga speakers is estimated to be slightly over one million.

Martti Rautanen translated the Bible into the Ndonga standard.[1]

References

  1. ^ Namiweb.com

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