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Kwisi people

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Native to
  
Angola

Extinct
  
ca. 1970?

ISO 639-3
  
None (mis)

Region
  
southern coast

Language family
  
unclassified

Glottolog
  
kwis1235

The Kwisi are a seashore-fishing and hunter-gatherer people of southwest Angola that physically seem to be a remnant of an indigenous population—along with the Kwadi, the Cimba, and the Damara—that are unlike either the San (Bushmen) or the Bantu. Culturally they have been strongly influenced by the Kuvale, and speak the Kuvale dialect of Herero. There may, however, have been a few elderly speakers of an unattested Kwisi language (AKA Kwisi, Mbundyu, Kwandu) in the 1960s.

References

Kwisi people Wikipedia