Chokwe language
From Chalo Chatu, Zambia online encyclopedia
Chokwe is the Bantu language spoken by the Chokwe people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola and Zambia. It is recognized as a national language of Angola, where half a million people spoke it in 1991. Another half a million speakers lived in the Congo in 1990, and some 20,000 in Zambia in 2010.[1] Angola's Instituto de Línguas Nacionais (National Languages Institute) has established spelling rules for Chokwe with a view to facilitate and promote its use. It is used as a lingua franca in eastern Angola.
| Chokwe | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia |
Native speakers | (980,000 cited 1990–1991)[1] |
Niger–Congo
| |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Angola (national language) |
| Regulated by | Instituto de Línguas Nacionais |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cjk |
| Glottolog | chok1245[2] |
K.11[3] | |
| Chokwe | |
|---|---|
| Person | Kacôkwe |
| People | Tucôkwe |
| Language | Ucôkwe (Wuchokwe) |
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chokwe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) Template:Subscription required
- ↑ Lua error in ...ribunto/includes/engines/LuaCommon/lualib/mwInit.lua at line 23: bad argument #1 to 'old_ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
