Kwanyama dialect

Kwanyama
Oshikwanyama
Native to Namibia and Angola
Region Ovamboland
Native speakers
 250,000 in Namibia (2006); 420,000 in Angola  (1993)[1]
Niger–Congo

  • Atlantic–Congo

    • Benue–Congo
      • Southern Bantoid
Language codes
ISO 639-1 kj
ISO 639-2 kua
ISO 639-3 kua
Glottolog kuan1247[2]
R.21[3]
Linguasphere 05-PEA-aa

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 Oshindonga, the other Oshiwambo dialect with a standard written form.

The entire Christian Bible has been translated into Kwanyama and was first published in 1974 under the name Ombibeli by the South African Bible Society.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Kwanyama at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kuanyama". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. ↑ Ombibeli, 1974, front page

External links

Kwanyama dialect test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator