Editing Herero language (section)

{{Short description|Bantu language of Namibia and Botswana}}
{{See also|Otjiherero grammar}}
{{Infobox language
| name = OvaHerero
| nativename = ''Otjiherero''
| states = [[Namibia]], [[Botswana]], [[Angola]]
| region = [[Kunene Region|Kunene]], [[Omaheke Region]] and [[Otjozondjupa Region]] in Namibia; [[Ghanzi District|Ghanzi]] in Botswana; [[Namibe Province|Namibe]], [[Huíla Province|Huíla]] and [[Cunene Province|Cunene]] in Angola
| ethnicity = [[OvaHerero people|OshiHerero]], [[OvaHimba people|Himba]], [[OvaMbanderu people|Mbanderu]], [[OvaTjimba people|Tjimba]], [[Kwisi people|Kwisi]], [[Twa#Angola and Namibia|Twa]]
| speakers = {{sigfig|248,700|2}}
| date = 2015–2018
| ref = e25
|familycolor=Niger-Congo
|fam2=[[Atlantic–Congo languages|Atlantic–Congo]]
|fam3=[[Volta-Congo]]
|fam4=[[Benue–Congo languages|Benue–Congo]]
|fam5=[[Bantoid]]
|fam6=[[Southern Bantoid languages|Southern Bantoid]]
|fam7=[[Bantu languages|Bantu]]
|fam8=[[Kavango – Southwest Bantu languages|Kavango – Southwest Bantu]]
|fam9=[[Southwest Bantu]]
|fam10=Herero (R.30)
| script = [[Latin script|Latin]] ([[OshiHerero alphabet]])<br />[[Herero Braille]]
| dia1 = [[Himba dialect|Himba]]
| dia2 = [[Kuvale language|Kuvale]]
| dia3 = [[Zemba language|Zemba]] (Thimba, ''Otjizemba'')
| dia4 = [[Hakaona language|Hakawona]] (''Otjihakawona'')
| dia5 = [[Botswana Herero]]
| iso1 = hz
| iso1comment = Herero
| iso2 = her
| iso2comment = Herero
| iso3 = her
| iso3comment = Herero
| glotto = here1253
| glottoname = Herero
| guthrie = R.30 (R31,311,312); {{nowrap|R.101 (Kuvale)}}
| map = Distribution of Otjiherero in Namibia.png
| mapcaption = The disparate distribution of the Herero language in [[Namibia]], showing the concentration of Herero speakers on the Kalahari boundary in the east, as well as the outlying Herero-speaking [[Himba people]] of the [[Kaokoveld]] in the far north-west.
|notice=IPA
}}
{{Infobox ethnonym
|root=
|person='''Omu'''-<br/>
[[Herero people|OmuHerero]], [[Himba people|OmuHimba]], [[Mbanderu people|OmuMbanderu]]
|people='''Ova'''-<br/>
[[Herero people|OvaHerero]], [[Himba people|OvaHimba]], [[Mbanderu people|OvaMbanderu]]
|language='''Otji'''-<br/>
[[Herero people|OtjiHerero]], [[Himba people|OtjiHimba]], [[Mbanderu people|OtjiMbanderu]]
|country=
}}
[[File:WIKITONGUES- Pamela speaking Herero.webm|thumb|A Herero speaker, recorded in [[Namibia]].]]
'''Herero''' (Otjiherero) is a [[Bantu language]] spoken by the [[Herero people|Herero]] and [[Mbanderu people]]s in [[Namibia]] and [[Botswana]], as well as by small communities of people in southwestern [[Angola]]. There were {{sigfig|248,700|2}} speakers in these countries between 2015 and 2018.<ref name=e25/>