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Kwangwa language

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Native to
  
Zambia

Guthrie code
  
K.37, K.721

ISO 639-3
  
None (mis)

Native speakers
  
2,400 Kwanga and Kwandi (2010 census)

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu (Zone K) Kavango? Kwangwa

Glottolog
  
kwan1275  (Kwanga) kwan1274  (Kwandi)

Kwangwa (Kwanga) is a Bantu language of Zambia.

Maho (2009) lists K.721 Kwandi as a distinct but closely related language.

Kwandi and Kwanga had once been classified as dialects of the divergent Luyana language.

References

Kwangwa language Wikipedia