Ndombe language

Ndombe
Native to Angola
Native speakers
 22,000  (2000)[1]
Niger–Congo

  • Atlantic–Congo

    • Benue–Congo
      • Southern Bantoid
        • Bantu
          • Kavango–Southwest?
            • Southwest Bantu?
              • Ndombe
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ndq
Glottolog ndom1244[2]
R.12[3]

Ndombe (Dombe) is a Bantu language of Angola. It was assigned by Guthrie to Bantu group R.10, which apart from Umbundu Pfouts (2003) established as part of the Kavango–Southwest branch of Bantu.[4] Though not specifically addressed, Ndombe may be in that branch as well.

References

  1. ↑ Ndombe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ndombe". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. ↑ Nurse & Phillipson 2003