Ndonga
Ndonga is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Namibia and Angola, by about 810 thousand people.
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Oshindonga, is a Bantu dialect spoken in Namibia and parts of Angola. It is a standardized dialect of the Ovambo language, and is mutually intelligible with Kwanyama, the other Ovambo dialect with a standard written form. With 810,000 speakers, the language has the largest number of speakers in Namibia.
Martti Rautanen translated the Bible into the Oshindonga dialect. Beginning his work in 1885, he published the New Testament in 1903, but it took until 1920 to finish the Old Testament. His Bible translation became the basis of a standardized form of Ndonga.
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Written down
Aantu ayehe oya valwa ye na emanguluko noye na ondilo yi thike pamwe osho wo uuthemba. Oye na omaipulo goondunge neiuvo onkene naa kalathane mombepo yuumwainathana.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Ndonga
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | ntu* | |
| name | dhina* | |
| eye | eho* | |
| ear | kuci* | |
| nose | yulu* | |
| tooth | yego* | |
| tongue | laka* | |
| blood | mbinzi* | |
| bone | sipa* | |
| skin | ipa* | |
| knee | Nolo* | |
| breast | gunji* | |
| liver | huli* | |
| water | omeya | |
| fire | lilo* | |
| sun | taNo* | |
| star | yothi* | |
| stone | ma5a* | |
| mountain | dundu* | |
| tree | ti* | |
| leaf | fo* | |
| night | usiku* | |
| dog | bwa* | |
| fish | hi* | |
| horse | okakambe | |
| louse | na* | |
| one | mwe* | |
| two | yali* | |
| drink | nwa* | |
| see | mona* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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