Bantu language spoken in Namibia and Angola
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 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 .
References
"Kwangali" . Ethnologue . Retrieved 15 August 2018.New Updated Guthrie List Online
Sommer, Gabi (2003). Western Savanna . Nurse, Derek and Philippson, Gérard (eds.), The Bantu languages: London & New York: Routledge. pp. 566–580.
Dammann, Ernst (1957). Studien zum Kwangali: Grammatik, Texte, Glossar. Hamburg: Cram, de Gruyter
Derek Nurse & Gérard Philippson, The Bantu languages, 2003:569. Books
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