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Kuvale language

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Kuvale
Native toAngola
Ethnicity70,000 (2015)[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
olu – Kuvale
nql – Ngendelengo
Glottologkuva1244  Kuvale
ngen1257  Ngendelengo
R.101[2]

Kuvale is a Southern Bantu language spoken in Angola, in the middle of a large Umbundu-speaking area. It has traditionally been considered a dialect of Herero; however, Maho (2009) has moved it from Bantu Zone R.30 to Zone R.10, which includes Umbundu and a few smaller languages.[2] Ngendelengo may be a distinct language.

References

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  1. ^ Kuvale language at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) Closed access icon
  2. ^ a b Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

Further reading

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  • Fehn, Anne-Maria (2019). "Kuvale: A Bantu language of southwestern Angola". Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 40 (2): 235–270. doi:10.1515/jall-2019-0010.
  • Jordan, Linda. "A Comparison of Five Speech Varieties of Southwestern Angola". In: Journal of Language Survey Reports. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2015-017 (2016)