- Source: Kwangali language
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
=A dental click type [ǀ] may also be heard, being adopted from the neighboring Khoisan languages. The clicks may also tend to be heard as alveolar [!].
= Vowels
=Short vowels of /i e o u/ may also be pronounced as [ɪ ɛ ɔ ʊ].
References
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, ISBN 978-2-84924-310-7
Biblical passages in Kwangali
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Namibia
- Kwangali language
- Kwangali
- Namibia
- Voiceless nasal glottal approximant
- Kavango people
- Mbunza
- Recognition of same-sex unions in Namibia
- KWN
- Click consonant
- Languages of Namibia
