Kwangali language
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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.
Phonology
Consonants
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Vowels
Short vowels of /i e o u/ may also be pronounced as [ɪ ɛ ɔ ʊ].[3]
References
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- 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, Template:ISBN
- Biblical passages in Kwangali
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