Kwisi people

Ethnic group in Angola From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

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Kwisi
Regions with significant populations
Angola
Languages
Kuvale, formerly Kwisi
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Language

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Kwisi
Mbundyu, Kwandu
Native toAngola
Regionsouthern coast
Extinct1963[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologkwis1235
R.102[2]
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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]

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