Mbukushu

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Mbukushu or Thimbukushu is a Bantu language spoken by 45,000 people along the Okavango River in Namibia, where it is a national language; in Botswana; in Angola; and in Zambia, where it is an official regional language. It appears to be an divergent lineage of Bantu. Mbukushu is one of several Bantu languages of the Okavango which have click consonants. Mbukushu has three: tenuis c, voiced gc, and nasalized nc, as well as prenasalized ngc, which vary between speakers as dental, palatal, and postalveolar . It also has a nasal glottal approximant.
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[en] Mbukushu language
[fr] Mbukushu
[sw] Kimbukushu

Language type : Living

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Following BCP 47 the recommended tag for this language is mhw.

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ISO 639-3 : mhw

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