Kwangali language

Kwangali
Rukwangali
Native to	Namibia, Angola
Region	Okavango River
Native speakers	84,000 (2000)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu Kavango–Southwest Kavango Kwangali
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kwn
Glottolog	kwan1273[2]
Guthrie code	K.33[3]

Kwangali, or RuKwangali, is a Bantu language spoken by 85,000 people along the Okavango River in Namibia, where it is a national language, and in Angola. It is one of several Bantu languages of the Okavango which have click consonants; these are the dental clicks c and gc, along with prenasalization and aspiration. It also has a nasal glottal approximant.

Maho (2009) includes Mbundza as a dialect, but excludes Sambyu, which he includes in Manyo.

References

1. Kwangali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kwangali". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

• Dammann, Ernst (1957). Studien zum Kwangali: Grammatik, Texte, Glossar. Hamburg: Cram, de Gruyter
• Derek Nurse & Gérard Philippson, The Bantu languages, 2003:569.

Books

• Rukwangali/English for Children, Éditions du Cygne, 2013, ISBN 978-2-84924-310-7
• Biblical passages in Kwangali