Languages of Namibia, the Glossary
Namibia, despite its scant population, is home to a wide diversity of languages, from multiple language families: Germanic, Bantu, and the various Khoisan families.[1]
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35 relations: African National Congress Youth League, Afrikaans, Bantu languages, Constitution of Namibia, ǂKxʼaoǁʼae, ǃKung languages, Dciriku language, Defiance Campaign, English language, Fwe language, German language, German language in Namibia, Germanic languages, Herero language, Internal resistance to apartheid, Kavango – Southwest Bantu languages, Khoekhoe language, Khoisan languages, Khwe language, Kuhane language, Kwangali language, Language family, Lozi language, Mbukushu language, Namibia, Namibian Sign Language, Namlish, Naro language, Ovambo language, Portuguese language, QWERTY, South Africa, Taa language, Tswana language, Yeyi language.
African National Congress Youth League
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is the youth wing of the African National Congress (ANC).
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Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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Bantu languages
The Bantu languages (English:, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu peoples of Central, Southern, Eastern and Southeast Africa.
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Constitution of Namibia
The Constitution of Namibia is the supreme law of the Republic of Namibia.
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ǂKxʼaoǁʼae
ǂKxʼaoǁʼae (English pronunciation:, native pronunciation), also rendered ǂKxʼauǁʼein, or Gobabi ǃKung (Gobabis-ǃXû), is an eastern dialect of the Southern ǃKung language, spoken in Botswana (the settlements of Groote Laagte, East Hanahai, Kanagas and Ghanzi in Ghanzi District and on the commercial farms) and in Namibia (the city of Gobabis and settlements along the C22 road to Otjinene as far as Eiseb, Omaheke Region) by about 7,000 people.
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ǃKung languages
ǃKung (ǃXun), also known as Ju, is a dialect continuum (language complex) spoken in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola by the ǃKung people, constituting two or three languages.
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Dciriku language
Gciriku, or Dciriku (Also Diriku, Dirico, Manyo or Rumanyo), is a Bantu language spoken by 305,000 people along the Kavango River in Namibia, Botswana and Angola.
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Defiance Campaign
The Defiance Campaign against Unjust Laws was presented by the African National Congress (ANC) at a conference held in Bloemfontein, South Africa in December 1951.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Fwe language
FV:final vowel Fwe, or Chifwe, is a Bantu language spoken by 10,000 people along the Okavango River in the Zambezi region of Namibia and in the Western Province in Zambia.
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German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
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German language in Namibia
Namibia is a multilingual country in which German is recognised as a national language.
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Germanic languages
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa.
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Herero language
Herero (Otjiherero) is a Bantu language spoken by the Herero and Mbanderu peoples in Namibia and Botswana, as well as by small communities of people in southwestern Angola.
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Internal resistance to apartheid
Internal resistance to apartheid in South Africa originated from several independent sectors of South African society and took forms ranging from social movements and passive resistance to guerrilla warfare.
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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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Khoekhoe language
Khoekhoe (Khoekhoegowab), also known by the ethnic terms Nama (Namagowab), Damara (ǂNūkhoegowab), or Nama/Damara and formerly as Hottentot, is the most widespread of the non-Bantu languages of Southern Africa that make heavy use of click consonants and therefore were formerly classified as Khoisan, a grouping now recognized as obsolete.
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Khoisan languages
The Khoisan languages (also Khoesan or Khoesaan) are a number of African languages once classified together, originally by Joseph Greenberg.
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Khwe language
Khwe (also rendered Kxoe, Khoe) is a dialect continuum of the Khoe branch of the Kwadi-Khoe family of Namibia, Angola, Botswana, South Africa, and parts of Zambia, with some 8,000 speakers.
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Kuhane language
The Ikuhane language is a Bantu language spoken in Southern Africa.
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Kwangali language
Kwangali, or RuKwangali, is a Bantu language spoken by 85,000 people along the Kavango River in Namibia, where it is a national language, and in Angola.
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Language family
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family.
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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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Mbukushu language
Mbukushu or Thimbukushu is a Bantu language spoken by 45,000 people along the Kavango East Region in Namibia, where it is a national language, and in Botswana, Angola and Zambia.
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Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.
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Namibian Sign Language
Namibian Sign Language (commonly abbreviated as NSL) is a sign language of Namibia and Angola.
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Namlish
Namlish (a portmanteau of the words Namibian and English) is a form of English spoken in Namibia.
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Naro language
Naro, also Nharo, is a Khoe language spoken in Ghanzi District of Botswana and in eastern Namibia.
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Ovambo language
The Ovambo language is a dialect cluster spoken by the Ovambo people in southern Angola and northern Namibia, of which the written standards are Kwanyama and Ndonga.
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Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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QWERTY
QWERTY is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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Taa language
Taa, also known as ǃXóõ (also spelled ǃKhong and ǃXoon),The Taa pronunciation of "ǃXóõ" can be heard in, repeated from 0′16″ to 0′24″.
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Tswana language
Tswana, also known by its native name Setswana, and previously spelled Sechuana in English, is a Bantu language spoken in and indigenous to Southern Africa by about 8.2 million people.
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Yeyi language
Yeyi (autoethnonym Shiyɛyi) is a Bantu language spoken by many of the approximately 50,000 Yeyi people along the Okavango River in Namibia and Botswana.
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