North Mbundu

E337754

North Mbundu, also known as Kimbundu, is a Bantu language spoken primarily in northwestern Angola by the Mbundu people.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
North Mbundu canonical 1
Northern Mbundu 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language ⓘ
language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
alternateName Kimbundu ⓘ
Kimbundu language ⓘ
belongsToBranch Southwest Bantu ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Kikongo ⓘ
Umbundu ⓘ
continent Africa ⓘ
country Angola ⓘ
ethnicGroup Mbundu people NERFINISHED ⓘ
glottologCode kimb1241 ⓘ
glottologName Kimbundu ⓘ
hasAlternativeTransliteration Kimbúndu ⓘ
hasDialects Ambaca dialect ⓘ
Bondo dialect ⓘ
Dembos dialect ⓘ
Luanda dialect ⓘ
hasISOStandard ISO 639 ⓘ
surface form: ISO 639-2

ISO 639-3 ⓘ
hasLinguisticTypology SVO basic word order ⓘ
agglutinative language ⓘ
hasLoanwordsFrom Portuguese language ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature noun class system ⓘ
tone ⓘ
influencedBy Portuguese language ⓘ
iso639-2Code kmb ⓘ
isOfficialLanguageIn none ⓘ
languageFamily Bantu languages ⓘ
Niger–Congo languages ⓘ
macrolanguageOf Kimbundu dialect cluster ⓘ
nativeName Kimbundu ⓘ
region Bengo Province ⓘ
Cuanza Norte Province ⓘ
Luanda Province ⓘ
Malanje Province ⓘ
spokenBy Mbundu people NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenIn Angola ⓘ
spokenInRegion northwestern Angola ⓘ
subfamily North Mbundu self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Northern Mbundu
usedBy Mbundu communities in urban areas ⓘ
usedFor daily communication among Mbundu people ⓘ
usedIn traditional oral literature ⓘ
usesAlphabet Latin alphabet ⓘ
writingSystem Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kimbundu → alternateName → North Mbundu ⓘ
North Mbundu → subfamily → North Mbundu self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Northern Mbundu