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| script = Cyrillic | | script = Cyrillic | ||
| setting = [[Verse:L′ywai!]] | | setting = [[Verse:L′ywai!]] | ||
| nation = Ndonga ([[:w:Angola|Angola]]), Chornarus ([[:w:Namibia|Namibia]]), Mozambique | | nation = [[Verse:L′ywai!/Ndonga|Ndonga]] ([[:w:Angola|Angola]]), [[Verse:L′ywai!/Chornarus|Chornarus]] ([[:w:Namibia|Namibia]]), [[Verse:L′ywai!/Mozambique|Mozambique]] | ||
| region = (Former) [[Verse:L′ywai!/Russian Africa|Russian Africa]], [[:w:Southern Africa|Southern Africa]] | | region = (Former) [[Verse:L′ywai!/Russian Africa|Russian Africa]], [[:w:Southern Africa|Southern Africa]] | ||
| iso3 = (qrq) | | iso3 = (qrq) | ||
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| speakers = 35.6 million | | speakers = 35.6 million | ||
| date = 12016 | | date = 12016 | ||
| ethnicity = Ndongans, African-Russians | | ethnicity = Ndongans, [[Verse:L′ywai!/Russian Africa#African-Russians|African-Russians]] | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Ndongan''' (Кѣязик Ндоҥске, tr. {{#invoke:Transliterator|qrqcyrl|Кѣязик Ндоҥске}}), in the universe of the play ''L′ywai! (Лѣвай!)'' by Elliott Wheeler, is an East Slavic creole, which evolved from the [[:w:History of the Russian language#Empire (18th-19th centuries)|Imperial Russian language]] and its pidgin form in Southern Africa via heavy influence from the [[:w:Kikongo language|Kikongo]] and [[:w:Kimbundu language|Kimbundu language]]s. Being an official language in Ndonga, Chornarus, and Mozambique, the language is and continues to be of particular importance to the peoples of former Russian Africa, acting mainly as a lingua-franca analogous to Afrikaans, and functioned as a semi-code talk of the Red Army and other revolutionary groups during the Civil war. | '''Ndongan''' (Кѣязик Ндоҥске, tr. {{#invoke:Transliterator|qrqcyrl|Кѣязик Ндоҥске}}), in the [[Verse:L′ywai!|universe of the play ''L′ywai! (Лѣвай!)'']] by Elliott Wheeler, is an East Slavic creole, which evolved from the [[:w:History of the Russian language#Empire (18th-19th centuries)|Imperial Russian language]] and its pidgin form in Southern Africa via heavy influence from the [[:w:Kikongo language|Kikongo]] and [[:w:Kimbundu language|Kimbundu language]]s. Being an official language in [[Verse:L′ywai!/Ndonga|Ndonga]], [[Verse:L′ywai!/Chornarus|Chornarus]], and [[Verse:L′ywai!/Mozambique|Mozambique]], the language is and continues to be of particular importance to the peoples of former [[Verse:L′ywai!/Russian Africa|Russian Africa]], acting mainly as a lingua-franca analogous to Afrikaans, and functioned as a semi-code talk of the Red Army and other revolutionary groups during the Civil war. | ||
As of [[:w:2016|the year 12016]], the language has 35.6 million speakers (native & non-native) and counting, making it one of the largest creole languages in the word. The majority of the speakers of the language are of Ndongan or African-Russian ethnicity distributed widely across southern Africa, with the number of African-Russians who have adopted the language (over their native Russian) has increased significantly in recent years after the [[:w:Dissolution of the Soviet Union|dissolution of the Soviet Union]] and subsequent de-Russification movement in response to the growth of [[:w:Reactionary|reactionary politics]] in Russia. | As of [[:w:2016|the year 12016]], the language has 35.6 million speakers (native & non-native) and counting, making it one of the largest creole languages in the word. The majority of the speakers of the language are of Ndongan or [[Verse:L′ywai!/Russian Africa#African-Russians|African-Russian]] ethnicity distributed widely across southern Africa, with the number of African-Russians who have adopted the language (over their native Russian) has increased significantly in recent years after the [[:w:Dissolution of the Soviet Union|dissolution of the Soviet Union]] and subsequent de-Russification movement in response to the growth of [[:w:Reactionary|reactionary politics]] in Russia. | ||
==Geographic distribution== | ==Geographic distribution== | ||
==Dialects== | ==Dialects== | ||