| Chokwe | |
|---|---|
| Ucôkwe (Wuchokwe) | |
| Native to | Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia |
| Ethnicity | Chokwe people |
Native speakers | (2.5 million cited 1990–2018)[1] |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Angola (national language) |
| Regulated by | Instituto de Línguas Nacionais |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cjk |
| Glottolog | chok1245 |
K.11[2] | |
| Chokwe | |
|---|---|
| Person | Kacôkwe |
| People | Tucôkwe |
| Language | Ucôkwe (Wuchokwe) |
Chokwe (also known as Batshokwe, Ciokwe, Kioko, Kiokwe, Quioca, Quioco, Shioko, Tschiokloe or Tshokwe[3]) is a Bantu language spoken by the Chokwe people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola and Zambia. It is recognised as a national language of Angola, where half a million people were estimated to have spoken it in 1991; another half a million speakers lived in the Congo in 1990, and some 20,000 in Zambia in 2010.[1] It is used as a lingua franca in eastern Angola.
- ^ a b Chokwe at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ^ Nurse, Derek; Philippson, Gérard; Bostoen, Koen; Van de Velde, Mark (2019). The Bantu languages (Second ed.). London. ISBN 9781317628682.
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