Kwambi dialect

Kwambi
Kwambi
Oshikwambi
Native to	Namibia and Angola
Region	Ovamboland
Native speakers	33,000 (2006)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu Kavango–Southwest Southwest Bantu Ovambo Kwambi; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kwm
Glottolog	kwam1251
Guthrie code	R.23

Kwambi or Otshikwambi is a dialect of the Ovambo language spoken by the Kwambi tribe in Northern Namibia. Unlike Ndonga and Kwanyama it does not have a standardized written form in schools but is used and written in the Roman Catholic Church in Namibia. It shares more features with Ndonga than with Kwanyama.

^ Kwambi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

[e18-1] Kwambi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[Guthrie-2] Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

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