The intermingling of Lunda ( Ruund and Southern Lunda ) and Chokwe, in which other smaller groups were presumably also caught up, continued until about 1920.

The diverse ethnic communities – the Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Bakongo, Chokwe, and other peoples – maintain to varying degrees their own cultural traits, traditions and languages, but in the cities, where slightly more than half of the population now lives, a mixed culture has been emerging since colonial times – in Luanda since its foundation in the 16th century.

The diverse ethnic communities with their own cultural traits, traditions and native languages or dialects include the Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Bakongo, Chokwe, and other peoples.

For the most part thinly scattered in an inhospitable territory, split by the southern expansion of the Chokwe, and lacking the conditions for even partial political centralization, let alone unification, the groups constituting the category went different ways when nationalist activity gave rise to political movements based in part on regional and ethnic considerations.

The Chokwe, until the latter half of the nineteenth century a small group of hunters and traders living near the headwaters of the Cuango and Cassai rivers, were at the southern periphery of the Lunda Empire and paid tribute to its head.

Portuguese anthropologists and some others accepting their work have placed some of the peoples ( Minungu and Shinji ) in this area with the Mbundu, and the Minungu language is sometimes considered a transitional one between Kimbundu and Chokwe.

There may in fact have been important Mbundu influence on these two peoples, but the work of a number of linguists places their languages firmly with the set that includes Ruund, Lunda, and Chokwe.

Some of the groups in the eastern divisions were represented in the MPLA-PTA, which Mbundu and mestiços dominated, although the Lwena, neighbors of and related to the Chokwe, tended to support UNITA.

Chokwe peoples, Angola, early 20th century.

Other numerically important groups include the closely interrelated Chokwe and Lunda, the Ganguela and Nhaneca-Humbe, in both cases classification terms which stand for a variety of small groups, the Ovambo, the Herero, the Xindonga and scattered residual groups of Khoisan.

The kingdom of Lunda came to an end in the 19th century when it was invaded by the Chokwe, who were armed with guns.

The first three infantry battalions were stationed at Chokwe, Cuamba, and Quelimane.

In the 19th century at least half the population was enslaved among the Duala of the Cameroon, the Igbo and other peoples of the lower Niger, the Kongo, and the Kasanje kingdom and Chokwe of Angola.

In Angola the people with whom the northward-expanding Chokwe came into contact were chiefly Ruund speakers.

In the latter half of the nineteenth century, the Chokwe became increasingly involved in trading and raiding, and they expanded in all directions, but chiefly to the north, in part absorbing the Ruund and other peoples.

In the late nineteenth century, the Chokwe went so far as to invade the capital of the much-weakened empire in Katanga.

As a consequence of this Chokwe activity, a mixed population emerged in parts of Zaire as well as in Angola, although there were virtually homogenous communities in both countries consisting of Chokwe, Ruund, or Southern Lunda.

The three major tongues ( Ruund, Lunda, and Chokwe ) had long been distinct from each other, although some borrowing of words, particularly of Ruund political titles by the others, had occurred.

In the intra-Angolan political conflict preceding and immediately following independence, there apparently was some division between the northern Lunda-Chokwe, especially those with some urban experience, who tended to support the MPLA, and the rural Chokwe, particularly those farther south, who tended to support UNITA.

The essentially independent groups constituting what was no more than a Portuguese census category was split by southward penetration of the Chokwe in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

All the groups included in the Nganguela ethnolinguistic category spoke languages apparently related to those spoken by the Ruund, Southern Lunda, and Chokwe.

Lwena and Chokwe, although not mutually intelligible, were probably more closely related than Chokwe was to Ruund or Lunda.

The province, including the towns of Xai-Xai and Chokwe, were greatly affected by the 2000 Mozambique flood.

The word was formerly written in English as " Accomptant ", but in process of time the word, which was always pronounced by dropping the " p ", became gradually changed both in pronunciation and in orthography to its present form ( see also comptroller ).

Preaspirated stops also occur in some Sami languages ; for example, in Sami, the unvoiced stop phonemes,,, are pronounced preaspirated (, ) when they occur in medial or final position.

CyKey ( pronounced sai-ki or " psyche ") is named after the Microwriter chord system's co-inventor Cy Endfield, who died in 1995 but the name also reflects its intuitive nature.

Is (" as well ") and se (" not ... either ") also function as clitics: although written separately, they are pronounced together with the preceding word, without stress: Ő is jön.

By the mid-20th century many rhyming slang expressions used the names of contemporary personalities, especially actors and performers: for example " Gregory Peck " meaning " neck " and also " cheque "; " Ruby Murray " meaning " curry "; " Alans ", meaning " knickers " from Alan Whicker ; " Max Miller " meaning " pillow " when pronounced / ˈpilə / and " Henry Halls ".

Hanukkah (, Tiberian:, usually spelled, pronounced in Modern Hebrew ; also romanized as Chanukah, Chanukkah, Chanuka, or Khanukah ), also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple ( the Second Temple ) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE.

It can also be used to " break up " a diphthong as in tío ( pronounced, rather than as it would be without the accent ).

He also read Lewis Carroll's poem " Jabberwocky " in a heavy Cuban accent ( he pronounced it " Habberwocky ").

English " knight " and German and Dutch Knecht are clearly related ( though pronounced differently ), and originally had also a similar meaning, denoting a person rather low in the social scale.

The shape of the neck can also vary, from a gentle " C " curve to a more pronounced " V " curve.

Valiente claimed that the coven also referred to the god as Janicot ( pronounced Jan-e-co ), which she theorised was of Basque origin, and Gardner also used this name in his novel High Magic's Aid.

An instrumental version of a song which otherwise features vocals is also known as a-1 ( pronounced minus one ).

Imbolc or Imbolg ( pronounced or ), also called Brighid's Day or St Brighid ’ s Day (,, ), is a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of spring.

The " g " is also notable ; unless it starts a sentence, it is pronounced, like the ng in " sing ," in the Kanto prestige dialect and in other eastern dialects.

It also had very rounded underwater sections but had more pronounced flair in the topsides, giving it more stability as well as keeping more water out of the boat at speed or in waves.

He was also a pronounced Christian Evolutionist.

) At the end of a word, He ה can also be used to indicate that a vowel a should be pronounced.

They also spelled, pronounced, and used English words differently.

The active expression of Tao is called Te ( also spelled – and pronounced – De, or even Teh ; often translated with Virtue or Power ; ), in a sense that Te results from an individual living and cultivating the Tao.

He also had a pronounced dolichocephalic ( elongated ) skull, although it was within normal bounds and highly unlikely to have been pathological.

But this period of energetic activity also had a pronounced effect in the Scandinavian homelands, which were subject to a variety of new influences.

For example, in Mayan, the glyph for " fin ", pronounced " ka '", was also used to represent the syllable " ka " whenever the pronunciation of a logogram needed to be indicated, or when there was no logogram.

English also contains a number of words beginning with a W that is silent in most dialects before a ( pronounced ) R, remaining from usage in Anglo-Saxon in which the W was pronounced: wreak, wrap, wreck, wrench, wroth, wrinkle, etc.