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What does Umbundu mean?

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  1. A Bantu language spoken by the Ovimbundu people in the central highlands of Angola.
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Ovimbundu, also called Umbundu, people inhabiting the tree-studded grasslands of the BiƩ Plateau in Angola.
This consignment consists of Bibles in Otjiherero, Rukwangali, Silozi, Umbundu, Luchazi, Portuguese and English.
I am the one pushed aside, because I do not follow the blood of my Kimbundu mother, or the blood of my Umbundu father.
Thus people taken prisoner after Angola's independence had to learn Umbundu.
But this means that we should expect that dozens of other Black English words had been traced to, say, Bambara, Mende, Twi, Yoruba, Efik, Umbundu, and so on.
There are different ethnic groups, the Kikongo, Kimbundu, and Umbundu and it is nationalist ideology which serves their emotional coherence.

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