Kwanyama dialect
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Kwanyama | |
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Oshikwanyama | |
Native to | Namibia and Angola |
Region | Ovamboland |
Native speakers | (250,000 in Namibia (2006); 420,000 in Angola cited 1993)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | kj |
ISO 639-2 | kua |
ISO 639-3 | kua |
Glottolog | kuan1247 |
R.21 [2] | |
Linguasphere | 05-PEA-aa |
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 Oshindonga, the other Oshiwambo dialect with a standard written form.
The entire Christian Bible has been translated into Kwanyama and was first published in 1974 under the name Ombibeli by the South African Bible Society.[3]
Phonology
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t~t̪ | tʃ | k | |
voiced | b | d~d̪ | dʒ | |||
prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ⁿdʒ | ᵑɡ | ||
Fricative | voiceless | f | (s) | ʃ | x | h |
voiced | v | |||||
Nasal | voiced | m | n | ɲ | ||
voiceless | m̥ | n̥ | ɲ̊ | ŋ̊ | ||
Approximant | w | l | j |
/t/ and /d/ are dentalized when followed by a front vowel /i/. An /s/ sound can only occur in loanwords.
Front | Back | |
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Close | i | u |
Mid | e | o |
Open | a |
References
- Crane, Thera; Lindgren-Streicher, Karl; Wingo, Andy (2004). Hai ti! A Beginner's Guide to Oshikwanyama (PDF).
- Halme, Riikka (2004). A Tonal Grammar of Kwanyama. pp. 12–18.
- Zimmerman, W.; Hasheela, P. (1998). Oshikwanyama Grammar. Windhoek: Gamsberg Macmillan.
- ^ Kwanyama at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ^ Ombibeli, 1974, front page
External links
- Language map of Namibia
- Grammar and vocabulary Template:Es icon
- PanAfrican L10n page on Kwanyama
- Omalinjongameno Ōngeleka. (Services of the Church in Kwanyama Authorised for Use in the Diocese of Damaraland, 1957) digitized by Richard Mammana 2015
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