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Namlish (a portmanteau of the words Namibian and English) is a form of English spoken in Namibia. [1] The term was first recorded in 1991. [2]English is the country's official language since independence in 1990.
Namibia, despite its scant population, is home to a wide diversity of languages, from multiple language families: Germanic, Bantu, and the various Khoisan families. When Namibia was administered by South Africa , Afrikaans , German , and English enjoyed an equal status as official languages.
Simple English; سنڌي; Slovenčina ... Pages in category "Languages of Namibia" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not ...
The Ovambo (English: / ɒ ˈ v æ m b oʊ /) language is a dialect cluster spoken by the Ovambo people in southern Angola and northern Namibia, of which the written standards are Kwanyama and Ndonga. The native name for the language is Oshiwambo (also written Oshivambo ), which is also used specifically for the Kwanyama and Ndonga dialects.
Namibia (/ n ə ˈ m ɪ b i ə / ⓘ, / n æ ˈ-/), [15] [16] officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean.It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the east and south.
Khoekhoe is a national language in Namibia. In Namibia and South Africa, state-owned broadcasting corporations produce and broadcast radio programmes in Khoekhoe. It is estimated that only around 167,000 speakers of Khoekhoe remain in Africa, which makes it an endangered language.
White Namibians (German: Weiße Namibier or Europäische Namibier) are people of European descent settled in Namibia.The majority of White Namibians are Dutch-descended Afrikaners (locally born or of White South African descent), with a minority being native-born German Namibians (descended from Germans who colonised Namibia in the late-nineteenth century).
Examples of German language on signs in Namibia. Namibia is a multilingual country in which German is recognised as a national language.While English has been the sole official language of the country since 1990, in many areas of the country, German enjoys official status at a community level. [1]