Kwangali, or RuKwangali, is a
Bantu language spoken by 85,000 people along the
Kavango River in
Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and e ...
, where it is a national language, and in
Angola
, national_anthem = "Angola Avante"()
, image_map =
, map_caption =
, capital = Luanda
, religion =
, religion_year = 2020
, religion_ref =
, coordina ...
. It is one of several Bantu languages of the Kavango which have
click consonants; these are the
dental clicks ''c'' and ''gc,'' along with
prenasalization and
aspiration.
Maho (2009) includes Mbunza as a dialect, but excludes Sambyu, which he includes in
Manyo.
Phonology
Consonants
A dental click type may also be heard, being adopted from the neighboring Khoisan languages. The clicks may also tend to be heard as alveolar .
Vowels
Short vowels of /i e o u/ may also be pronounced as
� ɛ ɔ ʊ
References
* Dammann, Ernst (1957). ''Studien zum Kwangali: Grammatik, Texte, Glossar.'' Hamburg: Cram, de Gruyter
* Derek Nurse & Gérard Philippson, ''The Bantu languages,'' 2003:569.
Books
* ''Rukwangali/English for Children'',
Éditions du Cygne, 2013,
Biblical passages in Kwangali
Kavango languages
Languages of Angola
Languages of Namibia
{{Bantu-lang-stub