Region Ovamboland ISO 639-1 ng | Native speakers 810,000 (2006) ISO 639-2 ndo | |
Native to Namibia and southern Angola Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Bantu
Kavango–Southwest
Southwest Bantu
Ovambo
Ndonga | ||
Ndonga, also called Oshindonga, is a Bantu language spoken in Namibia and parts of Angola. It is a standardized dialect of the Ovambo language, and is mutually intelligible with Kwanyama, the other Ovambo dialect with a standard written form. With 281,500 speakers, the language has the largest number of speakers in Namibia.
Contents
Martti Rautanen translated the Bible into the Ndonga standard.
Vowels
Oshindonga uses a five-vowel system:
Consonants
Oshindonga contains the following consonant phonemes:
Oshindonga also contains many consonant compounds, listed below:
References
Ndonga dialect Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA