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)
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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.