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Also known as Ovambo language, Oshiwambo language

Bantu language

Key facts

Native to
Angola , Namibia
Ethnicity
Owambo
Native speakers
(1,441,000 cited 1990)
Language family
Niger–Congo ? Atlantic–Congo Volta–Congo languages Benue–Congo Bantoid languages Southern Bantoid Bantu Kavango – Southwest Southwest Bantu Owambo
Standard forms
Kwanyama Ndonga
Official language in
Namibia
Iso 639 3
Variously:, kua – Kwanyama , ndo – Ndonga , kwm – Kwambi , lnb – Mbalanhu (Central Wambo), nne – Ngandjera
Glottolog
ndon1253
Guthrie code
R.20 (R.21–24,211–218,241–242)

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Modern-day distribution of Oshiwambo speakers in Namibia An Ovambo speaker, recorded in Namibia.

The Ovambo ( English: /ɒˈvæmboʊ/) language or Oshiwambo, also known as the Namibian language, is a dialect cluster spoken by the Ovambo people in southern Angola and northern Namibia, of which the written standards are Kwanyama and Ndonga.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ovambo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.