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Luyana (Luyaana) also known as Luyi (Louyi Lui Rouyi) is a Bantu language spoken by almost half a million people in Zambia and in discontinuous areas of Namibia and Angola. It appears to be an divergent lineage of Bantu.Ethnologue lists Kwandi Mbowe Mbume and possibly Kwangwa (Kwanga) as dialects. Maho (2009) classifies these as distinct languages; it is not clear if any of them are part of the divergent Luyana branch of Bantu or if they are Kavango languages.