Kuvale | |
States: | Angola |
Ethnicity: | 70,000 (2015) |
Speakers: | ? |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Benue–Congo |
Fam4: | Bantoid |
Fam5: | Bantu |
Fam6: | Kavango–Southwest? |
Fam7: | Southwest Bantu? |
Fam8: | (?) |
Lc1: | olu |
Ld1: | Kuvale |
Lc2: | nql |
Ld2: | Ngendelengo |
Guthrie: | R.101 |
Glotto: | kuva1244 |
Glottoname: | Kuvale |
Glotto2: | ngen1257 |
Glottoname2: | Ngendelengo |
Script: | Latin |
Kuvale is a Southern Bantu language spoken in Angola, in the middle of a large Umbundu-speaking area. It has traditionally been considered a dialect of Herero; however, Maho (2009) has moved it from Bantu Zone R.30 to Zone R.10, which includes Umbundu and a few smaller languages. Ngendelengo may be a distinct language.