Chopi language

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Chopi
Chichopi
Native toMozambique
Native speakers
760,000 (2006)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
Dialects
  • Lenge
Language codes
ISO 639-3cce
Glottologchop1243
Guthrie code
S.61,611[2]
Linguasphere99-AUT-cc
incl. varieties
99-AUT-cca...-ccd

Chopi, also spelled Copi, Tschopi, and Txopi, is a Bantu language spoken along the southern coast of Mozambique.

Maho (2009) lists the possibly extinct Lenge dialect as a distinct language.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Chopi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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