Herero, known to its speakers as Otjiherero, is a Bantu language of southern Africa, spoken mainly in central and eastern Namibia, with smaller communities in Botswana and southern Angola. Estimates put the number of speakers at around a quarter of a million. In Namibia it is one of the recognised national languages, used on radio and taught in schools, and it is written in the Latin alphabet using an orthography first developed by nineteenth-century missionaries. The Himba people of northern Namibia speak a closely related variety, usually treated as a dialect of Herero. Like other Bantu languages, Herero builds its grammar around noun classes marked by prefixes, and its verbs carry a string of prefixes and suffixes showing tense, subject and object.
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