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Chokwe is the Bantu language spoken by the Chokwe people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Angola and Zambia. It is recognized as a national language of Angola where about 456000 people spoke it as of 1991. Another half a million speakers lived in the Congo in 1990 and some 44200 in Zambia as of 1986. Angola’s Instituto de Línguas Nacionais (National Languages Institute) has established spelling rules for Chokwe with a view to facilitate and promote its use.