Kwisi people#Language
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| group = Kwisi
| popplace = Angola
| languages = Kuvale, formerly Kwisi
}}
The Kwisi are a seashore-fishing and hunter-gatherer people of southwest Angola that physically seem to be a remnant of an indigenous population—along with the Kwadi, the Cimba, and the Damara—that are unlike either the San (Bushmen) or the Bantu.
Language
{{Infobox language
|name=Kwisi
|nativename=Mbundyu, Kwandu
|states=Angola
|region=southern coast
|extinct=1963
|familycolor=unclassified
|iso3=none
|guthrie=R.102
|glotto=kwis1235
|glottorefname=Kwisi
}}
Culturally they have been strongly influenced by the Kuvale, and speak the Kuvale dialect of Herero.{{Cite book |last=Blench |first=Roger |title=Challenging Elusiveness: Central African Hunter-Gatherers in a Multidisciplinary Perspective |date=1999 |publisher=Universiteit Leiden |editor-last=Biesbrouck |editor-first=K. |location=Leiden |pages=41–60 |chapter=Are the African Pygmies an Ethnographic Fiction? |access-date=2011-10-26 |editor-last2=Elders |editor-first2=S. |editor-last3=Rossel |editor-first3=G. |chapter-url=http://www.rogerblench.info/Anthropology%20data/Text/Pygmies%20an%20ethnographic%20fiction.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120126111442/http://www.rogerblench.info/Anthropology%20data/Text/Pygmies%20an%20ethnographic%20fiction.pdf |archive-date=2012-01-26 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite book |last=Barnard |first=Alan |title=Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa: A Comparative Ethnography of the Khoisan Peoples |date=1992 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-16650-8 |location=Cambridge}} There may, however, have been a few elderly speakers of an unattested Kwisi language ({{a.k.a.}} Kwisi, Mbundyu, Kwandu) in the 1960s.{{Cite book |title=Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa |date=1992 |publisher=Mouton de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-013404-9 |editor-last=Brenzinger |editor-first=Matthias |location=Berlin |page=367 |language=en}}
References
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