The Kwisi are a seashore-fishing and
hunter-gatherer
A traditional hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living an ancestrally derived lifestyle in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local sources, especially edible wild plants but also insects, fungi, ...
people of southwest
Angola
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that physically seem to be a remnant of an indigenous population—along with the
Kwadi, the
Cimba
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, and the
Damara—that are unlike either the
San (Bushmen) or the
Bantu
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*Bantu languages, constitute the largest sub-branch of the Niger–Congo languages
*Bantu peoples, over 400 peoples of Africa speaking a Bantu language
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. Culturally they have been strongly influenced by the Kuvale, and speak the Kuvale dialect of
Herero
Herero may refer to:
* Herero people, a people belonging to the Bantu group, with about 240,000 members alive today
* Herero language, a language of the Bantu family (Niger-Congo group)
* Herero and Namaqua Genocide
* Herero chat, a species of b ...
.
There may, however, have been a few elderly speakers of an unattested Kwisi language ( Kwisi, Mbundyu, Kwandu) in the 1960s.
References
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Ethnic groups in Namibia
Stone Age Africa
Hunter-gatherers of Africa