Chokwe Language
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Official language in | Angola |
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Native speakers | (980,000 cited 1990–1991) |
Language family | Bantu languages |
Niger–Congo languages | |
Benue–Congo languages | |
Music groups | Kongo language |
Kimbundu | |
Umbundu | |
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ID | 2875790 |
About Chokwe Language
Chokwe is a Bantu language spoken by the Chokwe people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola and Zambia. It is recognised 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.