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Ovambo language

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There are approximately one million Oshiwambo speakers in Namibia and Angola. Though it is mainly spoken in the northern regions of Namibia, it is widely spoken across the rest of the country by populations of migrant workers from Ovamboland. These workers comprise a large part of the population in
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Omupangi umwe okwa li a nyeka nge embo olo, ndele ta lesha oshipalanyole shalo, nokupula nge ta kondjifa ngeenge ohandi ka ninga umwe womEendombwedi daJehova ile hasho.
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There are eight dialects, including the two written standards Kwanyama and Ndonga. Oshiwambo culture is more dominant in the northern part of the country.
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A nurse grabbed the book from me, looked at the cover, and demanded to know whether I was going to become one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
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The following table contains the names, areas, dialect names and the locations of the Ovambo dialects according to T. E. Tirronen's
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appear to have originally been exonyms. Despite extensive speculation, their origin remains unknown.
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many towns, particularly in the south, where there are jobs in the mining industry. For example, in
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is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them.
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during colonial rule, which cut through the Oukwanyama tribal area, placing some in
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Maho (2009) lists the following as distinct languages in the Ovambo cluster:
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and others in Namibia. This results in regular cross-border movement.
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After Namibia's independence in 1990, the area previously known as
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Narrow Bantu languages by Guthrie classification zone templates
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is sometimes used, and in English publications from
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Index

Ambo language (Zambia)
Ambo language (Nigeria)
Angola
Namibia
Owambo
Language family
Nigerā€“Congo
Atlanticā€“Congo
Voltaā€“Congo languages
Benueā€“Congo
Bantoid languages
Southern Bantoid
Bantu
Kavango ā€“ Southwest
Southwest Bantu
Kwanyama
Ndonga
ISO 639-1
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ng
ISO 639-2
kua
ndo
ISO 639-3
kua
Kwanyama
ndo
Ndonga
kwm
Kwambi

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