Kwisi people
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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. Culturally they have been strongly influenced by the Kuvale, and speak the Kuvale dialect of Herero
. There may, however, have been a few elderly speakers of an unattested Kwisi language ( Kwisi, Mbundyu, Kwandu) in the 1960s.
Hunter-gatherer
A hunter-gatherer or forage society is one in which most or all food is obtained from wild plants and animals, in contrast to agricultural societies which rely mainly on domesticated species. Hunting and gathering was the ancestral subsistence mode of Homo, and all modern humans were...
people of southwest Angola
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...
that physically seem to be a remnant of an indigenous population—along with the Kwadi, the Cimba, and the Damara
Damara people
The Damara are an ethnic group who make up 8.5% of Namibia's population...
—that are unlike either the San
Bushmen
The indigenous people of Southern Africa, whose territory spans most areas of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola, are variously referred to as Bushmen, San, Sho, Barwa, Kung, or Khwe...
(Bushmen) or the Bantu. Culturally they have been strongly influenced by the Kuvale, and speak the Kuvale dialect of Herero
Herero language
The Herero language is a language of the Bantu family . It is spoken by the Herero people in Namibia and Botswana...
. There may, however, have been a few elderly speakers of an unattested Kwisi language ( Kwisi, Mbundyu, Kwandu) in the 1960s.