Umbundu
Úmbúndú
Umbundu is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Angola and Namibia, by about 6 million people.
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Umbundu, also known as Angolan, South Mbundu (autonym úmbúndú), one of many Bantu languages, is the most widely-spoken autochthonous language of Angola. Its speakers are known as Ovimbundu, an ethnic group that constitutes a third of Angola's population and whose homeland is the Central Highlands of Angola and the coastal region west of the highlands, including the cities of Benguela and Lobito. Because of recent internal migration, there are now also large communities in the capital, Luanda, and in its surrounding province, as well as in Lubango.
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Written down
Omanu vosi kilu lieve va citiwa lonjila yimosi leyovo limosi, lomoko yimosi kuenda unu umosi, kuenje momo vosi va kuete olondunge, va sesamela okulisumbila pokati ndavamanji.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Umbundu
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| heart | utima | |
| blood | osonde | |
| water | ovava | |
| sky | ilu | |
| tree | uti | |
| dog | ombwa | |
| cat | ongato | |
| one | mosi | |
| I | ame | |
| see | okuvandja | |
| bread | ombolo | |
| honey | owiki |
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
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