Kwangali language

Kwangali
Rukwangali
Native to Namibia, Angola
Region Okavango River
Native speakers
 84,000  (2000)[1]
Niger–Congo

  • Atlantic–Congo

    • Benue–Congo
      • Southern Bantoid
        • Bantu
          • Kavango–Southwest
            • Kavango
              • Kwangali
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kwn
Glottolog kwan1273[2]
K.33[3]

Kwangali, or RuKwangali, is a Bantu language spoken by 85,000 people along the Okavango River in Namibia, where it is a national language, and in Angola. It is one of several Bantu languages of the Okavango which have click consonants; these are the dental clicks c and gc, along with prenasalization and aspiration. It also has a nasal glottal approximant.

Maho (2009) includes Mbundza as a dialect, but excludes Sambyu, which he includes in Manyo.

References

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

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