Kwambi dialect

Kwambi
Oshikwambi
Native to	Namibia and Angola
Region	Ovamboland
Native speakers	33,000 (2006)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu Kavango–Southwest Southwest Bantu Ovambo Kwambi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`kwm`
Glottolog	`kwam1251`^[2]
Guthrie code	`R.23`^[3]

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.

Languages of Namibia

Official	English

Recognized regional	Oshiwambo Kwanyama Ndonga Afrikaans German

Other Bantu languages	Otjiherero Rukwangali Setswana Zemba Gciriku Fwe Kuhane Thimbukushu Shiyeyi

Khoisan	Nama/Damara Naro ǃXóõ Kung-Ekoka ǂKxʼauǁʼein Kxoe

References

↑ Kwambi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kwambi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online