Ndonga
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Oshindonga, is a Bantu dialect spoken in Namibia and parts of Angola. It is a standardized dialect of the Ovambo language, and is mutually intelligible with Kwanyama, the other Ovambo dialect with a standard written form. With 810,000 speakers, the language has the largest number of speakers in Namibia.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Ndonga is referenced by 256 other articles, and connects out to Bantu, Kwanyama and Ovambo.
It is catalogued under topics including Language articles citing Ethnologue 18, Language articles with Linguasphere code and Languages with ISO 639-1 code.
Its subject is documented across 37 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Language.iso3
- ndo
- Language.name
- Oshindonga
- Language.nativename
- Oshindonga
- Language.states
- Namibia and southern Angola
- Language.region
- Ovamboland
- Language.date
- 2006
- Language.ref
- e18
- Language.familycolor
- Niger-Congo
- Language.fam2
- Atlantic–Congo
- Language.fam3
- Benue–Congo
- Language.fam4
- Southern Bantoid
- Language.fam5
- Bantu
- Language.fam6
- Kavango–Southwest
- Language.fam7
- Southwest Bantu
- Language.fam8
- Ovambo
- Language.iso1
- ng
- Language.iso2
- ndo
- Language.glotto
- ndon1254
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Wikidata facts
Show 10 more facts
- Wikimedia language code
- ng
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 810000
- topic's main category
- Category:Ndonga language
- native label
- Ndonga
- writing system
- Latin script
- indigenous to
- Ohangwena Region
- different from
- Kwanyama
- P10369
- Lake Chaubunagungamaug
- dialect of
- Ovambo
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Phonology
- Vowels
- Consonants
- Tones
- References
- External links
Oshindonga, is a Bantu dialect spoken in Namibia and parts of Angola. It is a standardized dialect of the Ovambo language, and is mutually intelligible with Kwanyama, the other Ovambo dialect with a standard written form. With 810,000 speakers, the language has the largest number of speakers in Namibia.
Martti Rautanen translated the Bible into the Oshindonga dialect. Beginning his work in 1885, he published the New Testament in 1903, but it took until 1920 to finish the Old Testament. His Bible translation became the basis of a standardized form of Ndonga.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ndonga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.