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Mbunda language

Index Mbunda language

Mbunda is a Bantu language of Angola and Zambia. [1]

24 relations: Angola, Aspirated consonant, Atlantic–Congo languages, Bantu languages, Benue–Congo languages, Chokwe–Luchazi languages, Cuando Cubango Province, Kingdom of Luba, Kingdom of Lunda, List of Mbunda Chiefs in Zambia, Lozi language, Luchazi language, Mbunda Kingdom, Mbunda people, Mongu, Moxico Province, Mwene Mbandu Kapova I of Mbunda, Nyemba, Prenasalized consonant, Rulers of Mbundaland, Southern Bantoid languages, Tenuis consonant, Voice (phonetics), Zambia.

Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola (República de Angola; Kikongo, Kimbundu and Repubilika ya Ngola), is a country in Southern Africa.

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Aspirated consonant

In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.

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Atlantic–Congo languages

The Atlantic–Congo languages are a major division constituting the core of the Niger–Congo language family of Africa, characterised by the noun class systems typical of the family.

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Bantu languages

The Bantu languages (English:, Proto-Bantu: */baⁿtʊ̀/) technically the Narrow Bantu languages, as opposed to "Wide Bantu", a loosely defined categorization which includes other "Bantoid" languages are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu peoples throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Benue–Congo languages

Benue–Congo (sometimes called East Benue–Congo) is a major subdivision of the Niger–Congo language family which covers most of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Chokwe–Luchazi languages

The Chokwe–Luchazi languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone K.10 in Guthrie's classification.

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Cuando Cubango Province

Cuando Cubango is a province of Angola and it has an area of 199,049 km2 and a population of approximately 510,000.

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Kingdom of Luba

The Kingdom of Luba or Luba Empire (1585–1889) was a pre-colonial Central African state that arose in the marshy grasslands of the Upemba Depression in what is now southern Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Kingdom of Lunda

The Nation of Lunda (c. 1665 CE – c. 1887 CE) was a confederation of states in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, north-eastern Angola, and north-western Zambia, its central state was in Katanga.

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List of Mbunda Chiefs in Zambia

Mbunda people started migrating to Barotseland now Western Province of Zambia in the latter part of the 18th Century.

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Lozi language

Lozi, also known as siLozi and Rozi, is a Bantu language of the Niger–Congo language family within the Sotho–Tswana branch of Zone S (S.30), that is spoken by the Lozi people, primarily in southwestern Zambia and in surrounding countries.

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Luchazi language

Luchazi (Lucazi, Chiluchazi) is a Bantu language of Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia and Zambia.

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Mbunda Kingdom

The Mbunda Kingdom (Mbunda: Chuundi ca Mbunda or Vumwene vwa Mbunda or Portuguese: Reino dos Bundas) was an African kingdom located in west central Africa, what is now south-east Angola.

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Mbunda people

The Vambunda (singular Kambunda, adjective and language Mbunda, Mbúùnda or Chimbúùnda) are a Bantu people who, during the Bantu migrations, came from the north to south-eastern Angola and finally Barotseland, now part of Zambia.

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Mongu

Mongu is the capital of Western Province in Zambia and was the capital of the formerly-named province and historic state of Barotseland.

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Moxico Province

Moxico (Portuguese spelling) or Moshiko (Bantu spelling) is the largest province of Angola.

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Mwene Mbandu Kapova I of Mbunda

King Mwene Mbandu I Lyondthzi Kapova was the 21st monarch of the Mbunda people in the southeast of present-day Angola before the Portuguese colonization of the Mbunda territory at the beginning of the 20th century, specifically Moxico.

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Nyemba

Nyemba, Nyembas, or Vanyemba is what the Kavango people of northern Namibia call immigrants who fled from Angola during the Angolan Civil War.

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Prenasalized consonant

Prenasalized consonants are phonetic sequences of a nasal and an obstruent (or occasionally a non-nasal sonorant such as) that behave phonologically like single consonants.

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Rulers of Mbundaland

The following is a complete list of rulers of the Mbunda Kingdom, established in the southeast of present-day Angola, covering Moxico and Cuando Cubango Provinces.

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Southern Bantoid languages

Southern Bantoid (or South Bantoid), also known as Wide Bantu or Bin, is a branch of the Benue–Congo languages of the Niger–Congo language family.

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Tenuis consonant

In linguistics, a tenuis consonant is an obstruent that is unvoiced, unaspirated, unpalatalized, and unglottalized.

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Voice (phonetics)

Voice is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).

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Zambia

Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in south-central Africa, (although some sources prefer to consider it part of the region of east Africa) neighbouring the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west.

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ISO 639:mck, ISO 639:nkn, ISO 639:yax, Mbalango dialect, Mbalango language, Mbunda, Mbunda languages, Mbuunda language, Ndundu dialect, Ndundu language, Nkangala dialect, Nkangala language, Sango dialect, Shamuka dialect, Yauma dialect, Yauma language.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbunda_language

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