| Chokwe | |
|---|---|
| Ucôkwe (Wuchokwe) | |
| Native to | Angola,Democratic Republic of the Congo,Zambia |
| Ethnicity | Chokwe people |
Native speakers | (2.5 million cited 1990–2018)[1] |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Angola (national language) |
| Regulated by | Instituto de Línguas Nacionais |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cjk |
| Glottolog | chok1245 |
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 aBantu language spoken by theChokwe people of theDemocratic Republic of the Congo,Angola andZambia. 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 alingua 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.
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 ___ |
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