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    Namibia, despite its scant population, is home to a wide diversity of languages, from multiple language families: Germanic, Bantu, and the various Khoisan...
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    Germanic languages in Namibia. German is the mother tongue of German Namibians as well as older black speakers of Namibian Black German and Black Namibians who...
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    Sahel. Austronesian languages are spoken in Madagascar and parts of the Comoros. Khoe–Kwadi languages are spoken principally in Namibia and Botswana. Indo-European...
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    Namibia (/nəˈmɪbiə/ , /næˈ-/), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares...
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  • dialect continuum (language complex) spoken in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola by the ǃKung people, constituting two or three languages. Together with the...
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    study the language, after arriving in ǁHui!gaeb (later Cape Town) in 1659. [citation needed] Khoekhoe is a national language in Namibia. In Namibia and South...
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    The Khoisan languages (/ˈkɔɪsɑːn/ KOY-sahn; also Khoesan or Khoesaan) are a number of African languages once classified together, originally by Joseph...
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  • diaspora in northern Namibia. There are also a number of dialects spoken in far northern Namibia. Sekele is known by a number of names. "Sekele" itself...
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    This is a demography of the population of Namibia including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious...
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  • Namibian Black German, also NBG, (German: Küchendeutsch, "kitchen German") is a pidgin language of Namibia that derives from standard German. It is nearly...
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    similar Khoe languages, such as Damara. According to a dialect survey conducted by the University of Namibia's Department of African Languages, it was revealed...
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    Germanic languages, namely Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Scots. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the...
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    Sotho and Southern Sotho languages, as well as the Kgalagadi language and the Lozi language. Setswana is an official language of Botswana, South Africa...
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    (Otjiherero) is a Bantu language spoken by the Herero and Mbanderu peoples in Namibia and Botswana, as well as by small communities of people in southwestern...
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    Khoekhoe language. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Culture in Namibia is a blend of many different...
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    Namibia. The people call themselves ǃXoon (pl. ǃXooŋake) or ʼNǀohan (pl. Nǀumde), depending on the dialect they speak. The Tuu languages are one of the...
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    Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It evolved from the Dutch vernacular of South...
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    been suspected for a decade. Along with the Tuu languages and Khoe languages, they are one of three language families indigenous to southern Africa, which...
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  • Namibian Sign Language (commonly abbreviated as NSL) is a sign language of Namibia and Angola. It is presumed that there are other sign languages in these...
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    Ovambo (English: /ɒˈvæmboʊ/) language is a dialect cluster spoken by the Ovambo people in southern Angola and northern Namibia, of which the written standards...
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  • Namlish (redirect from Namibian English)
    country's official language since independence in 1990. Because it is the second or third language for the majority of the Namibians, local usage can vary...
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  • The history of Namibia has passed through several distinct stages from being colonised in the late nineteenth century to Namibia's independence on 21 March...
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    linguists to refer to many West Germanic languages, some of which are spoken in what formed the historical core area of Francia during the Early Middle Ages...
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  • Thimbukushu is a Bantu language spoken by 45,000 people along the Kavango East Region in Namibia, where it is a national language, and in Botswana, Angola...
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    German Namibians (German: Deutschnamibier) are a community of people descended from ethnic German colonists who settled in present-day Namibia. In 1883...
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  • who fled Namibia during times of political upheaval and conflict. The official languages of Namibia are English and Afrikaans, and many Namibian Americans...
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  • Namibia includes radio, television, and online and print formats. Although Namibia's population is fairly small, the country has a diverse choice of media;...
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  • is a Bantu language spoken by 85,000 people along the Kavango River in Namibia, where it is a national language, and in Angola. It is one of several Bantu...
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  • The Lozi language developed from a mixture of two languages: Luyana and Kololo. The Luyana people originally migrated south from the Kingdom of Luba and...
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  • in Namibia in 2008. Radio stations: State-run radio service broadcasts in multiple languages; about a dozen private radio stations; transmissions of multiple...
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