Kimbundu

Kimbundu
North Mbundu
Native to	Angola
Region	Luanda Province, Bengo Province , Malanje Province
Ethnicity	Ambundu
Native speakers	4 million (2012)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu (Zone H) Kimbundu languages (H.20) Kimbundu
Dialects	Kimbundu proper (Ngola) Mbamba (Njinga)
Language codes
ISO 639-2	kmb
ISO 639-3	kmb
Glottolog	kimb1241[2]
Guthrie code	H.21[3]

Kimbundu, or North Mbundu, one of two Bantu languages called Mbundu (see Umbundu), is the second-most-widely spoken Bantu language in Angola. It is concentrated in the north-west of the country, notably in the Luanda Province, the Bengo Province, the Malanje Province and the Cuanza Norte Province. It is spoken by the Ambundu.^[4]

References

1. Kimbundu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kimbundu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
4. Ambundu is the short form for Akwa Mbundu and 'Akwa' means 'from', or 'of', or more originally 'originally from' and 'belonging to'. In Kimbundu language the particle Akwa is shortened into simply A, so that instead of Akwa Mbndu it becomes Ambundu; similarly the term Akwa Ngola becomes ANgola, then Angola; Ngola was title for kings in Northern Angolan kingdom in the past, before the Portuguese invasion.

External links

• Collections for a handbook of the Boondéi language By Herbert Willoughby Woodward (1882)
• The art of the language of Angola, author Father Pedro Dias, published in 1697
• Emuseum article on Kimbundu
• PanAfrican L10n page on Kimbundu
• Kimbundu people
• Ethnic groups of Angola