Key facts
- Native to
- Angola , Namibia
- Ethnicity
- Owambo
- Native speakers
- (1,441,000 cited 1990)
- Language family
- Niger–Congo ? Atlantic–Congo Volta–Congo languages Benue–Congo Bantoid languages Southern Bantoid Bantu Kavango – Southwest Southwest Bantu Owambo
- Standard forms
- Kwanyama Ndonga
- Official language in
- Namibia
- Iso 639 3
- Variously:, kua – Kwanyama , ndo – Ndonga , kwm – Kwambi , lnb – Mbalanhu (Central Wambo), nne – Ngandjera
- Glottolog
- ndon1253
- Guthrie code
- R.20 (R.21–24,211–218,241–242)
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- Wikimedia language code
- ng
- Commons category
- Ovambo language
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Modern-day distribution of Oshiwambo speakers in Namibia An Ovambo speaker, recorded in Namibia.
The Ovambo ( English: /ɒˈvæmboʊ/) language or Oshiwambo, also known as the Namibian language, is a dialect cluster spoken by the Ovambo people in southern Angola and northern Namibia, of which the written standards are Kwanyama and Ndonga.
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