Kwisi people

Kwisi
Kwisi
Mbundyu, Kwandu
Native to	Angola
Region	southern coast
Extinct	1963[1]
Language family	unclassified ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	kwis1235
Guthrie code	R.102[2]

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

References

"UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger". unesco.org. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
Blench, Roger (1999). "Are the African Pygmies an Ethnographic Fiction?" (PDF). In Biesbrouck, K.; Elders, S.; Rossel, G. (eds.). Challenging Elusiveness: Central African Hunter-Gatherers in a Multidisciplinary Perspective. Leiden: Universiteit Leiden. pp. 41–60. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-26. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
Barnard, Alan (1992). Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa: A Comparative Ethnography of the Khoisan Peoples. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-16650-8.
Brenzinger, Matthias, ed. (1992). Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. p. 367. ISBN 978-3-11-013404-9.

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[1] "UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger". unesco.org. Retrieved 2018-05-25.

[Guthrie-2] Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

[Blench-3] Blench, Roger (1999). "Are the African Pygmies an Ethnographic Fiction?" (PDF). In Biesbrouck, K.; Elders, S.; Rossel, G. (eds.). Challenging Elusiveness: Central African Hunter-Gatherers in a Multidisciplinary Perspective. Leiden: Universiteit Leiden. pp. 41–60. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-26. Retrieved 2011-10-26.

[4] Barnard, Alan (1992). Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa: A Comparative Ethnography of the Khoisan Peoples. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-16650-8.

[5] Brenzinger, Matthias, ed. (1992). Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. p. 367. ISBN 978-3-11-013404-9.