Kwanyama dialect

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

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  1. Kwanyama at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. Ombibeli, 1974, front page

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