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Subramania Bharati
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Angola | |
| Languages | |
| Kuvale, formerly Kwisi |
The Kwisi are a seashore-fishing and hunter-gatherer people of southwest Angola that physically seem to be a remnant of an indigenous population—along with the Kwadi, the Cimba, and the Damara—that are unlike either the San (Bushmen) or the Bantu.
Language
| Kwisi | |
|---|---|
| Mbundyu, Kwandu | |
| Native to | Angola |
| Region | southern coast |
| Extinct | 1963[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | kwis1235 |
R.102[2] | |
Culturally they have been strongly influenced by the Kuvale, and speak the Kuvale dialect of Herero.[3][4] There may, however, have been a few elderly speakers of an unattested Kwisi language (a.k.a. Kwisi, Mbundyu, Kwandu) in the 1960s.[5]
References
- ^ "UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger". unesco.org. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ^ Blench, Roger (1999). "Are the African Pygmies an Ethnographic Fiction?" (PDF). In Biesbrouck, K.; Elders, S.; Rossel, G. (eds.). Challenging Elusiveness: Central African Hunter-Gatherers in a Multidisciplinary Perspective. Leiden: Universiteit Leiden. pp. 41–60. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-26. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
- ^ Barnard, Alan (1992). Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa: A Comparative Ethnography of the Khoisan Peoples. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-16650-8.
- ^ Brenzinger, Matthias, ed. (1992). Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. p. 367. ISBN 978-3-11-013404-9.