Talk:Nyemba language

Latest comment: 11 years ago by Kwamikagami

Afternoon, I found something wrong with your information at this page,it need to rectify it before it confuse the world about our tribe,to me its to funny the way you mix the information l wonder how do you conduct your reseach.lm kawaya Anton from Namibia,l was born in namibia but my parent they are from angola,and our family stil their there in Angola.The nyemba language you prefer is Ngangela,in ngangela it fall a lot of tribe(languange),to mention few..mbunda language,nkangala languange,luchazi languange,mbunda language,nyemba maxuaka language,ngonzelo language,mbwela language,we are ones when we speak we can understand each other without translater,now l see in your page were do you found out that chokwe-luchanzi related that one is wrong at all,at the moment we are fighting to remove even the name ngangela is meaning less to us,even a colonial name which portuguese call us.my advice to your good office send the proper person to come to angola special kuando kubango region to get proper information — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kawaya anton (talkcontribs) 11:33, 5 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

According to our references, the Chokwe–Luchazi cluster of languages is Chokwe, Luvale, Ngangela, Luchazi, Mbunda, Mbwela, Nkangala, Nyengo. They shouldn't be mutually intelligible, or they wouldn't be separate languages. You're saying that Nyemba/Ngangela, Luchazi, Mbunda, Mbwela, Nkangala all understand each other? They would then be dialects of a single language. Let's call it "Luchazi", as the most common name in English (and avoiding the colonial name Ngangela). The languages of the Chokwe–Luchazi cluster would then be:
Chokwe, Luvale, Luchazi, and Nyengo.
Does that seem right? Do speakers of those languages not understand each other? — kwami (talk) 01:19, 6 December 2012 (UTC)Reply