Kwanyama dialect
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Kwanyama or Cuanhama is a national language of Angola and Namibia. It is a standardized dialect of the Ovambo language, and is mutually intelligible with Oshindonga, the other Ovambo dialect with a standard written form.
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Kwanyama | |
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Oshikwanyama | |
Native to | Namibia and Angola |
Region | Ovamboland |
Native speakers | (250,000 in Namibia (2006); 420,000 in Angola cited 1993)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | kj |
ISO 639-2 | kua |
ISO 639-3 | kua |
Glottolog | kuan1247 |
R.21 [2] | |
Linguasphere | 99-AUR-la |
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The entire Christian Bible has been translated into Kwanyama and was first published in 1974 under the name Ombibeli by the South African Bible Society.[3] Jehovah’s Witnesses released the modern translation of the new testament, the New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures in Kwanyama in 2019,[4] both printed and electronic online version.