Kwangali language
Bantu language spoken in Namibia and Angola From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bantu language spoken in Namibia and Angola From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
A dental click type [ǀ] may also be heard,[how many consonants is this?] being adopted from the neighboring Khoisan languages. The clicks may also tend to be heard as alveolar [!].[3]
Short vowels of /i e o u/ may also be pronounced as [ɪ ɛ ɔ ʊ].[4]
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