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Sekele
Northern ǃKung
Native toNamibia, Angola
RegionOkavango and Ovamboland Territory
Native speakers
20,000 (2013–2019)[1]
Language family
Kxʼa
  • ǃKung
    • Sekele
Dialects
  • ǃʼOǃKung
  • Ekoka ǃKung
  • Kavango ǃKung
Language codes
ISO 639-3vaj – inclusive code
Individual code:
knw – Ekoka ǃKung
Glottologvase1234
kung1261

Sekele is the northern language of the ǃKung dialect continuum. It was widespread in southern Angola before the Angolan Civil War,[2] but those varieties are now spoken principally among a diaspora in northern Namibia. There are also a number of dialects spoken in far northern Namibia.

Sekele is known by a number of names. "Sekele" itself derives from Vasekele, the Angolan Bantu name. It is also known as Northern ǃKung, Northern ǃXuun, and Northern Ju. Two of the Angolan varieties have gone by the outdated term ǃʼOǃKung (or ǃʼO ǃuŋ [ǃˀoːǃʰũ], "Forest ǃKung") and Maligo (short for "Sekele Maligo"). There are several Namibian dialects, of which the best-known is Ekoka.

  1. ^ Sekele at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
    Ekoka ǃKung at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Gordon & Grimes 2005, p. 151

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