Kwanyama

language
name=Kwanyama
nativename=Oshikwanyama
familycolor=Niger-Congo
states=Namibia and Angola
region=Ovamboland
speakers=421,000 in Angola & over 250,000 in Namibia
fam2=Atlantic-Congo
fam3=Volta-Congo
fam4=Benue-Congo
fam5=Bantoid
fam6=Southern
fam7=Narrow Bantu
fam8=Central
fam9=Zone R
iso1=kj|iso2=kua|iso3=kua|

Kwanyama or Oshikwanyama is a national language of Angola and Namibia. It is a standardized dialect of the Oshiwambo language, and is mutually intelligible with Ndonga, the only other Oshiwambo dialect to have a standard written form.

References

*cite book |last=Crane |first=Thera |coauthors=Lindgren-Streicher, Karl; Wingo, Andy |year=2004 |title=Hai ti! A Beginner's Guide to Oshikwanyama |url=http://wingolog.org/pub/hai-ti/hai-ti.pdf
*cite book |editor=Gordon, Raymond, G., Jr. |year=2005 |title=Ethnologue: Languages of the World, |others=Fifteenth edition |location=Dallas, Tex. |publisher=SIL International |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=kua
*cite book |last=Zimmerman, W. |coauthors=Hasheela, P. |year=1998 |title=Oshikwanyama Grammar |location=Windhoek |publisher=Gamsberg Macmillan

External links

* [http://www.schoolnet.na/languages/walelepo.html Basic Grammar]
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_map.asp?name=NA&seq=10 Language map of Namibia]
* [http://www.ikuska.com/Africa/Lenguas/kwanyama/index.htm Grammar and vocabulary] es icon
* [http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Kwanyama PanAfrican L10n page on Kwanyama]