North Mbundu

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

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Label Occurrences
North Mbundu canonical 1
Northern Mbundu 1

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

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