Kwisi people explained

Kwisi
Nativename:	Mbundyu, Kwandu
States:	Angola
Region:	southern coast
Extinct:	1963
Ref:	^[1]
Familycolor:	unclassified
Iso3:	none
Guthrie:	R.102
Glotto:	kwis1235
Glottorefname:	Kwisi

The Kwisi are a seashore-fishing and hunter-gatherer people of southwest Angola that physically seem to be a remnant of an indigenous population—along with the Kwadi, the Cimba, and the Damara—that are unlike either the San (Bushmen) or the Bantu. Culturally they have been strongly influenced by the Kuvale, and speak the Kuvale dialect of Herero.^{[2] [3]} There may, however, have been a few elderly speakers of an unattested Kwisi language (Kwisi, Mbundyu, Kwandu) in the 1960s.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger . 2018-05-25 . unesco.org . en.
2. Book: Blench, Roger . Challenging Elusiveness: Central African Hunter-Gatherers in a Multidisciplinary Perspective . 1999 . Universiteit Leiden . Biesbrouck . K. . Leiden . 41–60 . Are the African Pygmies an Ethnographic Fiction? . 2011-10-26 . Elders . S. . Rossel . G. . http://www.rogerblench.info/Anthropology%20data/Text/Pygmies%20an%20ethnographic%20fiction.pdf . https://web.archive.org/web/20120126111442/http://www.rogerblench.info/Anthropology%20data/Text/Pygmies%20an%20ethnographic%20fiction.pdf . 2012-01-26 . dead.
3. Book: Barnard, Alan . Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa: A Comparative Ethnography of the Khoisan Peoples . 1992 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-139-16650-8 . Cambridge.
4. Book: Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa . 1992 . Mouton de Gruyter . 978-3-11-013404-9 . Brenzinger . Matthias . Berlin . 367 . en.