Kwangali language

Kwangali
Rukwangali
Native toNamibia, Angola
RegionKavango West
Native speakers
152,000 (2018)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3kwn
Glottologkwan1273
K.33[2]

Kwangali, or RuKwangali, is a Bantu language spoken by 85,000 people along the Kavango River in Namibia, where it is a national language, and in Angola. 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.

  1. ^ "Kwangali". Ethnologue. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  2. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online