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Kwangali language

NameKwangali
NativenameRukwangali
RegionNamibia (Okavango River)
Angola
FamilycolorNiger-Congo
Fam2Atlantic � Congo
Fam3Benue � Congo
Fam4Bantoid
Fam5Bantu
Fam6Kavango � Southwest
Fam7Kavango
Iso3kwn

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Kwangali, also known as RuKwangali and SiKwangali, 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.

*Derek Nurse & Gérard Philippson, The Bantu languages, 2003:569.


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