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Kwambi dialect

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Native to
  
Namibia and Angola

Native speakers
  
33,000 (2006)

Glottolog
  
kwam1251

Region
  
Ovamboland

ISO 639-3
  
kwm

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu Kavango–Southwest Southwest Bantu Ovambo Kwambi

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.

References

Kwambi dialect Wikipedia