Kwambi subject, object, and possessive concords

Abstract

Although in Guthrie's classification of the Wambo dialects it is indicated that Kwambi is only spoken in Angola, it is in fact also spoken by some 81 000 people in central northern Namibia. The morphological and morphonological dimensions of the derivation of the subject, object and possessive concords of the dialect are unknown, and are described in this article, together with a comparison of the relevant concords of Ndonga and Mbalanhu.