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Preferred term

kwnKwangali  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Kwangali, also known as RuKwangali and SiKwangali, is a Bantu language spoken by 85,000 people along the Okavango River in Namibia, where it is a national language, and in Angola. It is one of several Bantu languages of the Okavango which have click consonants; these are the dental clicks c and gc, along with prenasalization and aspiration. It also has a nasal glottal approximant.

Entry terms

  • Kwangali language

ISO 639-3 code

  • kwn

Notation

  • kwn

In other languages

  • RuKwangali

    German

  • Portuguese

  • Idioma RuKwangali

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/kwn

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