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Chokwe Language

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Official language in Angola
Native speakers(980,000 cited 1990–1991)
Language familyBantu languages
Niger–Congo languages
Benue–Congo languages
Music groups Kongo language
Kimbundu
Umbundu
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About Chokwe Language


Chokwe 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 spoke it in 1991. Another half a million speakers lived in the Congo in 1990, and some 20,000 in Zambia in 2010.

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