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Some of the national languages are used in Angolan schools, including the provision of teaching materials such as books, but there is a shortage of teachers. [7] Umbundu is the most widely spoken Bantu language, spoken natively by about 23 percent of the population, about 5.9 million. It is mainly spoken in the center and south of the country. [7]
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Umbundu, or South Mbundu (autonym úmbúndú), one of many Bantu languages, is the most widely-spoken autochthonous language of Angola.Its speakers are known as Ovimbundu and are an ethnic group constituting a third of Angola's population.
Angolan Portuguese (Portuguese: português de Angola) is a group of dialects and accents of Portuguese used in Angola. In 2005 it was used there by 60% of the population, including by 20% as their first language. The 2016 CIA World Fact Book reports that 12.3 million, or 47% of the population, speaks Portuguese as their first language. However ...
Arte da lingua de Angola: oeferecida [sic] a virgem Senhora N. do Rosario, mãy, Senhora dos mesmos pretos The art of the language of Angola, by Father Pedro Dias, 1697, Lisbon, artedalinguadean; Comparative Bantu Online Dictionary linguistics.berkeley.edu, includes comprehensive bibliography. Maho, Jouni Filip NUGL Online.
The languages spoken by the various elements of the so-called Lunda-Chokwe were more closely related to each other than to other Bantu languages in the Zairian-Angolan savanna but were by no means mutually intelligible. The three major tongues (Ruund, Lunda, and Chokwe) had long been distinct from each other, although some borrowing of words ...
A Kimbundu speaker, recorded in Angola. Kimbundu, a Bantu language which has sometimes been called Mbundu [3] or North Mbundu (to distinguish it from Umbundu, sometimes called South Mbundu), [4] is the second-most-widely-spoken Bantu language in Angola.
Angola is a founding member state of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), also known as the Lusophone Commonwealth, an international organization and political association of Lusophone nations across four continents, where Portuguese is an official language.