Kwanyama

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Kwanyama
Oshikwanyama
Spoken in Namibia and Angola
Region Ovamboland
Total speakers 421,000 in Angola & over 250,000 in Namibia
Language family Niger-Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-1 kj
ISO 639-2 kua
ISO 639-3 kua

Kwanyama or Oshikwanyama is a national language of Angola and Namibia. It is a standardized dialect of the Oshiwambo language, and is mutually intelligible with Ndonga, the only other Oshiwambo dialect to have a standard written form.

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