Chokwe language (original) (raw)
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Bantu language spoken by the Chokwe people
| Chokwe | |
|---|---|
| Ucôkwe (Wuchokwe) | |
| Native to | Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia |
| Ethnicity | Chokwe people |
| Native speakers | (2.5 million cited 1990–2018)[1] |
| Language family | Niger–Congo? Atlantic–CongoVolta-CongoBenue–CongoBantoidSouthern BantoidBantu (Zone K)Chokwe–Luchazi (K.10)Chokwe |
| Official status | |
| Official language in |  Angola (national language) |
| Regulated by | Instituto de Línguas Nacionais |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cjk |
| Glottolog | chok1245 |
| Guthrie code | K.11[2] |
| Chokwe | |
|---|---|
| Person | Kacôkwe |
| People | Tucôkwe |
| Language | Ucôkwe (Wuchokwe) |
Chokwe (also known as Batshokwe, Ciokwe, Kioko, Kiokwe, Quioca, Quioco, Shioko, Tschiokloe or Tshokwe[3]) is a Bantu language spoken by the Chokwe people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola and Zambia. It is recognised as a national language of Angola, where half a million people were estimated to have spoken it in 1991; another half a million speakers lived in the Congo in 1990, and some 20,000 in Zambia in 2010.[1] It is used as a lingua franca in eastern Angola.
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Angola's Instituto de Línguas Nacionais (National Languages Institute) has established spelling rules for Chokwe with a view to facilitate and promote its use.[4]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Close-mid | e | o | |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a ~ ɑ |
Vowels may also be heard as nasalized when preceding nasal consonants.
| | Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | Stop | voiceless | p | t | | (c) | k | | | voiced | b | d | | (ɟ) | g | | | | aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | | | kʰ | | | | prenasal vd. | ᵐb | ⁿd | | (ᶮɟ) | ᵑɡ | | | | prenasal vl. | ᵐp | | | | | | | | Affricate | voiceless | p͡f | t͡f | t͡ʃ | | | | | voiced | | t͡v | d͡ʒ | | | | | | prenasal | | ⁿd͡v | ⁿd͡ʒ | | | | | | Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | | | h | | voiced | v | z | ʒ | | | | | | prenasal | | ⁿz | ⁿʒ | | | | | | Nasal | m | n | | ɲ | | | | | Approximant | lateral | | l | | ʎ | | | | plain | | | | j | w | | |
Affricate sounds /t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ, ⁿd͡ʒ/ may also be pronounced as palatal stops [c, ɟ, ᶮɟ].
Chokwe has three tones as /v́/, /v̀/, and /v̂/.[5][6]
| English | Chokwe |
|---|---|
| Good Morning-Response | Menekenu-Mwane |
| See you | Ndo shimbu yikehe |
| Goodbye | Salenuho |
| What is your name? | Jina lie yena iya? |
| My name is ____ | Jina liami ___ |
- ^ a b Chokwe at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ^ Nurse, Derek; Philippson, Gérard; Bostoen, Koen; Van de Velde, Mark (2019). The Bantu languages (Second ed.). London. ISBN 9781317628682.
{{[cite book](/wiki/Template:Cite%5Fbook "Template:Cite book")}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Ethnologue report for Angola". 2012-09-23. Archived from the original on 2012-09-23. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
- ^ Ualhanga, Xavier Chipuleno (2017). Antroponímia na Língua Cokwe (Lunda-Norte) [_Anthroponymy in the Cokwe Language (Lunda-Norte)_] (Master's thesis) (in Portuguese). Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. hdl:10362/21952.
- ^ Martins, João Vicente (1990). Elementos de Gramática de Utchokwe [_Utchokwe Grammar Elements_] (in Portuguese). Lisboa: Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical. pp. 25–32.
{{[cite book](/wiki/Template:Cite%5Fbook "Template:Cite book")}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link) - ^ Akindipe, Omotola. "Learn Chokwe (Greetings and Introduction)". Learn Chokwe. Archived from the original on 2021-05-09.
- Learn Chokwe on the internet (Mofeko) Omotola Akindipe, Geofrey Kakaula & Alcino Joné