Kwangali, or RuKwangali, is a Bantu language spoken by 85,000 people along the Kavango River in Namibia, where it is a national language, and in Angola. It is one of several Bantu languages of the Kavango which have click consonants; these are the dental clicks c and gc, along with prenasalization and aspiration.

Maho (2009) includes Mbunza as a dialect, but excludes Sambyu, which he includes in Manyo.

Phonology

Consonants BilabialLabio-dentalAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottalNasal Plosivevoiceless aspirated voiced prenasal vl. prenasal vd. Fricativevoiceless voiced prenasal vl. prenasal vd. Approximant Trill

A dental click type may also be heard, being adopted from the neighboring Khoisan languages. The clicks may also tend to be heard as alveolar .Dammann (1957)

Vowels FrontCentralBackHigh     Mid     Low  

Short vowels of /i e o u/ may also be pronounced as [ɪ ɛ ɔ ʊ].

References

Dammann, Ernst (1957). Studien zum Kwangali: Grammatik, Texte, Glossar. Hamburg: Cram, de Gruyter Derek Nurse & Gérard Philippson, The Bantu languages, 2003:569.

Books Rukwangali/English for Children, Éditions du Cygne, 2013, Biblical passages in Kwangali