Kwisi people

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. 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 (AKA Kwisi, Mbundyu, Kwandu) in the 1960s.[5]

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

References
  1. "UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
  2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  3. Blench, Roger. 1999. "Are the African Pygmies an Ethnographic Fiction?". Pp 41–60 in Biesbrouck, Elders, & Rossel (eds.) Challenging Elusiveness: Central African Hunter-Gatherers in a Multidisciplinary Perspective. Leiden."Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-26. Retrieved 2011-10-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Alan Barnard, 1992. The Hunters and herders of southern Africa.
  5. Matthias Brenzinger, 1992. Language death: factual and theoretical explorations with special reference to East Africa, p. 367.
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