Lwena

E702326

Lwena is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Luena (Lwena) people in parts of Angola and neighboring regions of Central Africa.

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Label Occurrences
Lwena canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
natural language
alternativeName Chilwena NERFINISHED
Lovena NERFINISHED
Luena NERFINISHED
Lwena language NERFINISHED
Lwina NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Luchazi NERFINISHED
Luvale NERFINISHED
continent Africa
country Angola NERFINISHED
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Zambia
ethnicGroup Luena people NERFINISHED
Lwena people NERFINISHED
glottologCode luen1238
glottologName Luena NERFINISHED
hasFeature agglutinative morphology
noun class system
tone language
iso639-3Code lue
languageBranch Bantu (Zone K) NERFINISHED
languageFamily Bantu NERFINISHED
linguisticClassification Atlantic–Congo language
Benue–Congo language
Niger–Congo language NERFINISHED
Southern Bantoid language
macroArea Sub-Saharan Africa NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguage Luchazi NERFINISHED
Luvale NERFINISHED
Mbunda NERFINISHED
region Central Africa
spokenBy Luena people NERFINISHED
Lwena people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Angola NERFINISHED
Democratic Republic of the Congo NERFINISHED
Zambia NERFINISHED
status living language
subFamily Luchazi–Lwena group NERFINISHED
Zone K Bantu languages NERFINISHED
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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