Ndonga dialect

Ndonga
Owambo
Spoken in	Namibia and southern Angola
Region	Ovamboland
Native speakers	1,070,000
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Kavango–Southwest Southwest Bantu Ovambo Ndonga
Language codes
ISO 639-1	ng
ISO 639-2	ndo
ISO 639-3	ndo
Linguasphere	05-PEA-aa

Ndonga (also called Oshiwambo, Otjiwambo, or Owambo) is a Bantu language spoken in Namibia and some 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. The total number of Ndonga speakers is estimated to be slightly over one million.

Martti Rautanen translated the Bible into the Ndonga standard.^[1]

References

1. ^ Namiweb.com

External links

• Map of Ndonga language area from the LL-Map Project
• Information on Ndonga language from the MultiTree Project
• Ndonga
• Ethnologue Report on Ndonga