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Ovimbundu (African people)

LC control no.sh 94009694
Topical headingOvimbundu (African people)
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Variant(s)Banguella (African people)
Benguella (African people)
Benguella Mbundu (African people)
Quimbundo (African people)
South Mbundu (African people)
Umbundu (African people)
See alsoEthnology--Angola
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Found inWork cat.: Childs, G.M. Umbundu kinship & character: being a description of social structure and individual development of the Ovimbundu of Angola ... 1949.
Ethnologue, 2005: p. 42 (Umbundu (Umbundo, M'Bundo, Quimbundo, Ovimbundu, South Mbundu, Nano, Mbali, Mbari, Mbundu Benguella))
Biebuyck, D. African ethnonyms, 1996 (Ovimbundu; Angola; includes the Bié (Viye), Wambu, Bailundu, Tshiaka (Ciaka), Huambo, Kakonda, Ndulu, Ngalangi; the prefix Ovi- is maintained to avoid confusion with the Mbundu who are also in Angola north of the Ovimbundu)
Broadhead, S.H. Historical dictionary of Angola, 1992 (Ovimbundu; Central Highlands; speak umBundu; subgroups include: Bailundu, Bié, Dombe, Ganda, Huambo, Hanha, Caconda, Chiyaka, Sambu and Sele)
Africana: encyclopedia of the African and African American experience (Ovimbundu)
Britannica online, May 3, 2005 (Ovimbundu; also called Umbundu; they speak Umbundu, a Bantu language of the Niger-Congo language family)