Atlantic-Congo · Central Africa · Southern Africa

Herero

Threatened

Herero is documented so far only to the level of long grammar.

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FamilyAtlantic-Congo
StatusThreatened
DocumentationLong grammar
ISO 639-3her
Glottocodehere1253

Spoken in Angola · Botswana · Namibia

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Closest relatives

Languages sharing the deepest branch of Atlantic-Congo's family tree with Herero.

  1. Zemba

    Threatened
    Grammar sketch

  2. Central Wambo

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

  3. Kuanyama

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  4. Kuvale

    Not endangered
    Wordlist or less

  5. Kwambi

    Not endangered
    Phonology, text or dictionary

  6. Kwandu

    Not endangered
    Wordlist or less

  7. Ndonga

    Not endangered
    Grammar

  8. Ngandyera

    Not endangered
    Wordlist or less

Reference data for Herero from Glottolog 5.2.1, licensed CC-BY-4.0. Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2025. Glottolog 5.2.1. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at https://glottolog.org)