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Umbundu belongs to the Umbundu Group of Bantu (Guthrie R10). Umbundu should not be confused with Kimbundu (Guthrie H21). (Webbook)
Ethnologue lists the classification as: Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, R, South Mbundu (R.10)
It is spoken in central Angola in the provinces of Bie, Huambo, and Benguela. (Webbook)
4,000,000 in Angola (1995 WA). Population total all countries: 4,002,880. (Ethnologue)
No thorough dialect survey is known to us as of this writing. (Webbook)
Related to Nkhumbi, Ndombe, Nyaneka. (Ethnologue)
Umbundu is one of the national languages of Angola, where it is being used extensively in literacy projects. It is also heard on broadcasts of Radio National de Angola. (Webbook)
Trade language. (Ethnologue)
A UNESCO-sponsored literacy project in 1981-1982 has helped standardize an orthography. (Webbook) It is Latin-based. [current info, more details?]
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: http://www.isp.msu.edu/AfrLang/Umbundu_root.html
No information on localisation efforts.
Dwyer, David (1997), Webbook of African Languages, http://www.isp.msu.edu/AfrLang/hiermenu.html (page on "Umbundu," http://www.isp.msu.edu/AfrLang/Umbundu_root.html )
SIL International, Ethnologue: Languages of the World, "Umbundu," http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=umb
SIL International, "ISO 639 Code Tables," http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp
U.S. Library of Congress, "ISO 639.2: Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages: Alpha-3 codes arranged alphabetically by the English name of language," http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/English_list.php
Wikipedia, "Umbundu language," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbundu_language
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