Talk:Ovambo language

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I found a website to back up the citation needed about the language percentage used in the intro but I don't know how to footnote it. Please help. Here's the adress http://www.newafricanfrontiers.com/countries/namibia/people-of-namibia.htm It's in the second main paragraph under "Languages spoken in Namiba".--KyleM15 (talk) 00:27, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Just want to flag that, like the Owambo article, this article is horribly out of date and could be considered pretty racist. The "Owambo People" section reads like a description in a 1950s ethnological museum. 128.12.156.208 (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 19:12, 9 February 2009 (UTC).

Inconcistency in statistics

If the language is spoken by half of Namibians, and Namibia has a population of over 2 million, wouldn't there be a million Ovambo speakers rather than 670, 000? saɪm duʃan Talk|Contribs 00:12, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Usually these disagree because there is a difference in dating (language data is frequented dated), but in this case it's also because the fig is only for Kwanyama dialect. I'll fix it up. — kwami (talk) 01:06, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Watch out for the census taking place this year... am sure it will give the right figures. But the possibility is very high that Oshiwambo speaking people are half of the population. kristof Namuhuja — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.198.51.211 (talk) 07:50, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Inconsistency of names used

The article has alot of contradictions, Oshiwambo(Oshivambo), aawambo(vambo),the people are called Ovawambo/Aawambo and the language is Oshiwambo. Other spelling like Oshivambo came from other tribes because they couldn't pronounce the word correctly. All the Oshiwambo languages start with Oshi, (Oshikwambi..etc), now if you remove the (Oshi), what is the meaning of Kwambi? ,Kwambi now sounds english. I will get information and fix this article. Pshidute (talk) 08:20, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

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There are clear inconsistencies in the names used here. I am unsure of how to fix them myself. The Owambo people refer to themselves in English and Oshikwanyama/Oshindonga as the Owambo people not the Ovambo people which is a corrupted pronunciation from Afrikaans speakers. The title of this page needs to be changed to Owambo.

Kwambi, Kwanyama, Ndonga, etc. are all names of each tribe in the Owambo people group. OshiKwanyama and Oshindonga are the only two languages of these tribes that are officially written. TakielWestman (talk) 17:27, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

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