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Ndonga dialect
Oshindonga is a dialect of the Ovambo language spoken by the Ndonga people of northern Namibia. Finnish Lutheran missionaries made it a written language in the late 19th century, and Martti Rautanen completed a translation of the Bible into it. With Kwanyama it became one of the two standard written forms of Ovambo used in schools and churches.
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