Its speakers are concentrated in the north-west of the country, notably in the Luanda, Bengo, Malanje and the Cuanza Norte provinces.

The phoneme /l/ is phonetically a flap [ɾ], a voiced plosive [d] or its palatalized version [dʲ] when before the front high vowel /i/.

There may be an epenthesis of [g] after /ŋ/ in word medial positions, thus creating a phonetic cluster [ŋg] in a process of fortition.

There is a small number of words of Kimbundu origin and many of those are indirect loans, borrowed via Angolan Portuguese.

The examples generally understood by most or all speakers of Angolan and European Portuguese include bué (pronounced [bwɛ], "very, a lot"),[8] cota ([ˈkɔtɐ], "old person"[9]) mambo ([ˈmɐ̃bu]) Conjugating the verb to be (kuala; also kukala in Kimbundu) in the present:[10] Conjugating the verb to have (kuala ni; also kukala ni in Kimbundu) in the present :