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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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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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Dialect
The term dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word,, "discourse", from,, "through" and,, "I speak") is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena.
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German Empire
The German Empire (Deutsches Kaiserreich, officially Deutsches Reich),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people.
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Herero language
Herero (Otjiherero) is a language of the Bantu subfamily of the Niger–Congo group.
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Herero people
The Herero are an ethnic group inhabiting parts of Southern Africa.
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Himba people
The Himba (singular: OmuHimba, plural: OvaHimba) are indigenous peoples with an estimated population of about 50,000 people living in northern Namibia, in the Kunene Region (formerly Kaokoland) and on the other side of the Kunene River in Angola.
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Kavango – Southwest Bantu languages
The Kavango – Southwest Bantu languages are a group of Bantu languages established by Anita Pfouts (2003).
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Kwambi dialect
Kwambi or Otshikwambi is a dialect of the Ovambo language spoken by the Kwambi tribe in Northern Namibia.
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Kwanyama dialect
Kwanyama or Oshikwanyama is a national language of Angola and Namibia.
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Lüderitz
Lüderitz is a harbour town in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia, lying on one of the least hospitable coasts in Africa.
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Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia (German:; Republiek van Namibië), is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean.
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Ndonga dialect
Ndonga, also called Oshindonga, is a Bantu language spoken in Namibia and parts of Angola.
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Noun class
In linguistics, a noun class is a particular category of nouns.
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Ohangwena Region
Ohangwena is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, its capital is Eenhana.
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Omusati Region
Omusati region is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, its capital is Outapi.The region's name Omusati, comes from the oshiwamo word 'omusati' which means 'Mopane'.
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Ondonga
Ondonga is a traditional kingdom of the Ovambo in what is today northern Namibia.
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Oshana Region
Oshana is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, its capital is Oshakati.
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Oshikoto Region
Oshikoto is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, named after Lake Otjikoto near its former capital Tsumeb.
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Oukwanyama
Oukwanyama (Uukwanyama in the neighbouring Oshindonga dialect) is a traditional kingdom of the Ovambo people in what is today northern Namibia.
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Ovambo language
The Ovambo language, Oshiwambo, is a dialect cluster spoken by the Ovambo people in Angola and northern Namibia, of which the written standards are Kwanyama and Ndonga.
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Ovambo people
The Ovambo people, also called Aawambo, Ambo, Aawambo (Ndonga) or Ovawambo (Kwanyama), are a Southern African tribal ethnic group.
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Ovamboland
Ovamboland (also: Owamboland) is a region of Namibia.
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Portuguese Empire
The Portuguese Empire (Império Português), also known as the Portuguese Overseas (Ultramar Português) or the Portuguese Colonial Empire (Império Colonial Português), was one of the largest and longest-lived empires in world history and the first colonial empire of the Renaissance.
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Proto-Bantu language
Proto-Bantu is the reconstructed common ancestor of the 550 or so Bantu languages which are spread across Central and Southern Africa.
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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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Swahili language
Swahili, also known as Kiswahili (translation: coast language), is a Bantu language and the first language of the Swahili people.
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Uukwambi
Uukwambi is a traditional kingdom of the Ovambo people in what is today northern Namibia.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovambo_language
