ISO 639-3 cjk | ||
Native to Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia Native speakers (980,000 cited 1990–1991) Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Benue–Congo
Southern Bantoid
Bantu (Zone K)
Chokwe–Luchazi (K.10)
Chokwe Official language in Angola (national language) Regulated by Instituto de Línguas Nacionais | ||
Chokwe is the Bantu language spoken by the Chokwe people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola and Zambia. It is recognized as a national language of Angola, where half a million people spoke it in 1991. Another half a million speakers lived in the Congo in 1990, and some 20,000 in Zambia in 2010. Angola's Instituto de Línguas Nacionais (National Languages Institute) has established spelling rules for Chokwe with a view to facilitate and promote its use. It is used as a lingua franca in eastern Angola.
References
Chokwe language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA