Ndombe language
Ndombe | |
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Native to | Angola |
Native speakers | 22,000 (2000)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
ndq |
Glottolog |
ndom1244 [2] |
R.12 [3] |
Ndombe (Dombe) is a Bantu language of Angola. It was assigned by Guthrie to Bantu group R.10, which apart from Umbundu Pfouts (2003) established as part of the Kavango–Southwest branch of Bantu.[4] Though not specifically addressed, Ndombe may be in that branch as well.
References
- ↑ Ndombe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ndombe". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ Nurse & Phillipson 2003
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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