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Bantu languages of Zone R
There are less than 10 languages in Zone R, the largest of which are Umbundu, Wambo, Nyaneka, Herero, and Khumbi.
Zone R languages are spoken in Angola, northern Namibia and western Botswana.
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Barbara Cameron, Janet Kunkel, 2002
A sociolinguistic survey of the Dhimba language (PDF). SIL electronic survey report SILESR 2002-070.
www.sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2002-070
Wikipedia in Herero.
hz.wikipedia.org
Jan-Bart Gewald, 1999
Herero heroes: a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923 (PDF). London.
hdl.handle.net/1887/4824
Nancy Chongo Kula, Lutz Marten, 2002
Constraints and processes: evidence from Bemba, Herero and Swahili (PDF). SOAS working papers in linguistics and phonetics, v. 10, p. 91-102.
www.nancykula.net/Kula%20&%20Marten%202000.pdf
Lutz Marten, 2006
Locative inversion in Otjiherero: more on morphosyntactic variation in Bantu (PDF). ZAS papers in linguistics, n. 43, p. 97-122.
www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.html?publications_zaspil
Lutz Marten, Ruth Kempson
Pronouns, agreement, and the dynamic construction of verb phrase interpretation: a Dynamic Syntax approach to Bantu clause structure (PDF). Linguistic analysis, v. 32, p. 471-504.
mercury.soas.ac.uk/users/lm5/LAMartenKempson8Apr2006.pdf
Kae Matundu-Tjiparuro
Botswana Mbanderu seek to revive language. New era (Windhoek), December 8, 2004.
www.newera.com.na/archives.php?id=4685
Wikipedia in Kwanyama.
kj.wikipedia.org
Hai ti! A beginner's guide to Oshikwanyama at SchoolNet Namibia.
www.schoolnet.na/languages/index.html
Arvi Hurskainen, Riikka Halme, 2001
Mapping between disjoining and conjoining systems in Bantu languages: implementation on Kwanyama (PDF). Nordic journal of African studies, v. 10 (3), p. 399-414.
www.njas.helsinki.fi
Ndinomwaami
Go back to the original names. New era (Windhoek), December 20, 2006.
www.newera.com.na/archives.php?id=14328
Dirk Otten
Cardinal directions and environmental concepts of landscape in Kwanyama. Afrikanistik Online. Digital Peer Publishing.
www.dipp.nrw.de/afrika/archiv/249
Dirk Otten
Book review: 'A tonal grammar of Kwanyama' by Riikka Halme, 2004. Afrikanistik Online, 2006.
www.afrikanistik-online.de
Wikipedia in Ndonga.
ng.wikipedia.org
Te ti! A beginner's guide to Oshindonga at SchoolNet Namibia.
www.schoolnet.na/languages/teti/index.html
Ndinomwaami
Go back to the original names. New era (Windhoek), December 20, 2006.
www.newera.com.na/archives.php?id=14328
Ndinomwaami
Go back to the original names. New era (Windhoek), December 20, 2006.
www.newera.com.na/archives.php?id=14328
Thilo C. Schadeberg, 1982
Nasalization in Umbundu (PDF). From: Journal of African languages and linguistics, v. 4, p. 109-132.
hdl.handle.net/1887/8809
Thilo C. Schadeberg, 1986
Tone cases in UMbundu (PDF). From: Africana linguistica, v. 10, p. 423-447.
hdl.handle.net/1887/8816
The Kamanakao Association - an NGO "with the basic objective of maintaining and developing the remnants of the language and culture of the Wayeyi people of northern Botswana".
kamanakao.tripod.com
Lydia Nyati-Ramahobo
Language development for literacy: the case of Shiyeyi in Botswana. Africa Regional Literacy Network.
ili2.literacy.upenn.edu/products/ili/webdocs/ramahobo.html