Kwambi dialect

Kwambi
Oshikwambi
Native toNamibia and Angola
RegionOvamboland
Native speakers
33,000 (2006)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3kwm
Glottologkwam1251
R.23[2]

Kwambi or Otshikwambi is a dialect of the Ovambo language spoken by the Kwambi tribe in Northern Namibia. Unlike Ndonga and Kwanyama it does not have a standardized written form in schools but is used and written in the Roman Catholic Church in Namibia. It shares more features with Ndonga than with Kwanyama.

  1. ^ Kwambi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online