Concept information
Preferred term
cjkChokwe
Type
-
Language
Definition
- Chokwe is the Bantu language spoken by the Chokwe people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola and Zambia. It is recognized as a national language of Angola, where about 456,000 people spoke it as of 1991. Another half a million speakers lived in the Congo in 1990, and some 44,200 in Zambia as of 1986. Angola's Instituto de Línguas Nacionais (National Languages Institute) has established spelling rules for Chokwe with a view to facilitate and promote its use. It is used as a lingua franca in eastern Angola.
Entry terms
- Chokwe language
ISO 639-3 code
- cjk
Notation
- cjk
In other languages
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Tchokwé
French
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Portuguese
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Idioma chokwe
Spanish
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/cjk
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