Bantu language spoken in southern Africa
Mbukushu or Thimbukushu is a Bantu language spoken by 45,000 people along the Kavango East Region in Namibia , where it is a national language, and in Botswana , Angola and Zambia .
In 2022 it was selected among a variety of Mother Tongue languages to be taught in Botswana Primary Schools in the year 2023.
Mbukushu is one of several Bantu languages of the Kavango which have click consonants ; Mbukushu has three: tenuis c, voiced gc, and nasalized nc, as well as prenasalized ngc, which vary between speakers as dental , palatal , and postalveolar . It also has a nasal glottal approximant .
References
^ Mbukushu at Ethnologue
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Nurse, Derek; Philippson, Gérard (2003). The Bantu Languages . Routledge. p. 37. ISBN 0700711341
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Indigenous languages
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