Kwanyama or Oshikwanyama is a national language of Angola and Namibia.
It is a dialect of the Ovambo language.
Kwanyama | |
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Oshikwanyama | |
Native to | Namibia and Angola |
Region | Ovamboland |
Native speakers | (250,000 in Namibia (2006); 420,000 in Angola cited 1993) |
Niger–Congo
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | kj |
ISO 639-2 | kua |
ISO 639-3 | kua |
Glottolog | kuan1247 |
Guthrie code | R.21 |
Linguasphere | 99-AUR-la |
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