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Mbunda is a Bantu language of Angola, Zambia, and Namibia. There are several dialects: Katavola, Yauma, Nkangala, Mbalango, Sango, Ciyengele (Shamuka), and Ndundu, all of which are close. Mbunda is spoken by the Mbunda people of the Moxico Province of Angola. From there they migranted to western Zambia at the end of the 18th century, upon the migration of among others, the Ciyengele, and also at the beginning of the 20th century due to their resistance to Portuguese colonial occupation, and later because of the impact of the Angolan War of Independence (1961–1974), the decolonization conflict in Angola (1974/75), and the Angolan Civil War (1975–2002). As a consequence of the civil war, a number of Mbunda also took refuge in Northern Namibia, in the Caprivi Strip around Rundu. The Mbunda language in Zambia, Angola and Namibia is not spoken exactly the same way. In Zambia it has a strong upper teeth contact with the tongue, to pronounce words like: Mundthzindthzime (shadow), chithzalo (dress), Kuthsa (death) and many more. The difficult sounds represented by TH. Mbunda language in Angola and Namibia is spoken without the TH sounds, like in the Luchazi language; the words above are pronounced as Mutzitzime (shadow), chizalo (cloth), Kutsa (death). Even within Zambia, the Mbunda language spoken by the Chiyengele group that migrated earlier is different from that spoken by the Mbunda group that fled into Zambia as a consequence of the Mbunda-Portuguese war of 1914. That is why the Mbunda language of the Chiyengele group, mainly found in Mongu, is nicknamed Shamuka, heavily influenced by Lozi language. The same term can be attributed to the Mbunda language in Namibia, which is heavily influenced by the Nyemba and Luchazi languages.
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