Chokwe language

Chokwe
Chokwe
Person	Kacôkwe
People	Tucôkwe
Language	Ucôkwe (Wuchokwe)

Chokwe
Chokwe
Ucôkwe (Wuchokwe)
Native to	Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia
Ethnicity	Chokwe people
Native speakers	(2.5 million cited 1990–2018)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu (Zone K) Chokwe–Luchazi (K.10) Chokwe; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Official status
Official language in	Angola (national language)
Regulated by	Instituto de Línguas Nacionais
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cjk
Glottolog	chok1245
Guthrie code	K.11

Chokwe (also known as Batshokwe, Ciokwe, Kioko, Kiokwe, Quioca, Quioco, Shioko, Tschiokloe or Tshokwe) is a Bantu language spoken by the Chokwe people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola and Zambia. 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. It is used as a lingua franca in eastern Angola.

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