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.