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Name:
Mbundu
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Luanda; Lunda; Loande; Loanda Mbundu; Kimbundu; Kimbundo; North Mbundu; Nbundu; N'bundo; Dongo; Ndongo; Kindongo
Spoken in:
Angola
Number of speakers:
3,000,000 (WA 1999). Includes 41,000 Ngola (Voegelin and Voegelin 1977)
(Ethnologue)
Code:
kmb
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup:
Mbundu (H.20) (mbun)
Child Dialects:
Mbaka; Ambaquista (kmb-mba)
Njinga; Ginga; Jinga (kmb-nji)
Ngola (kmb-ngo)
Mbamba; Kimbamba; Bambeiro (kmb-mbb)

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