Kunene, Omaheke Region and Otjozondjupa Region in Namibia; Ghanzi in Botswana; Namibe, Huíla and Cunene in Angola
Ethnicity
Herero, Himba, Mbanderu, Tjimba, Kwisi, Twa
Native speakers
250,000 (2015–2018)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
Atlantic–Congo
Volta-Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Southern Bantoid
Bantu
Kavango – Southwest Bantu
Southwest Bantu
Herero (R.30)
Herero
Dialects
Himba
Kuvale
Zemba (Thimba, Otjizemba)
Hakawona (Otjihakawona)
Botswana Herero
Writing system
Latin (Herero alphabet) Herero Braille
Language codes
ISO 639-1
hz Herero
ISO 639-2
her Herero
ISO 639-3
her Herero
Glottolog
here1253 Herero
Guthrie code
R.30 (R31,311,312); R.101 (Kuvale)[2]
ELP
Herero
The disparate distribution of the Herero language in Namibia, showing the concentration of Herero speakers on the Kalahari boundary in the east, as well as the outlying Herero-speaking Himba people of the Kaokoveld in the far north-west.
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Person
Omu-
OmuHerero, OmuHimba, OmuMbanderu
People
Ova-
OvaHerero, OvaHimba, OvaMbanderu
Language
Otji-
OtjiHerero, OtjiHimba, OtjiMbanderu
A Herero speaker, recorded in Namibia.
Herero (Otjiherero) is a Bantu language spoken by the Herero and Mbanderu peoples in Namibia and Botswana, as well as by small communities of people in southwestern Angola. There were 250,000 speakers in these countries between 2015 and 2018.[1]
^ abHerero at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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Rhenish mission station to the Herero people in Gross Barmen. Hahn is known for his scientific work on the Hererolanguage. Hahn was born into a bourgeois...
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ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation...
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missile R31 (South Africa), a road Chlorofluoromethane, a refrigerant Hererolanguage HMS Warrior (R31), an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy R31: Contact...
Southern Bantu language spoken in Angola, in the middle of a large Umbundu-speaking area. It has traditionally been considered a dialect of Herero; however...
Namibia and North Western part of Botswana. The word is taken from the Hererolanguage. An omuramba provides occasional standing pools of water and more fertility...
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culminated in a campaign of German reprisals from 1904 to 1908 known as the Herero and Namaqua genocide. In 1915, during World War I, German South West Africa...
and the Herero (a group of Bantu pastoralists), leading to the Herero and Namaqua genocide and a large loss of life for both the Nama and Herero populations...
Herero Day (also known as Red Flag Day and Red Flag Heroes' Day, Otjiherero: Otjiserandu) is a gathering of the Herero people of Namibia to commemorate...
distinguishable from the Herero people, the OvaHimba are a semi-nomadic, pastoralist people and speak OtjiHimba, a variety of Herero, which belongs to the...
hotel, 83 km north-west of Outjo in Namibia. The name is from the Hererolanguage and means 'place of the kondo-coloured cattle', i.e. red or black with...
what today is Windhoek, on the borders of Herero territory. The Afrikaners soon came in conflict with the Herero who entered Damaraland from the south at...
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