Chopi language
This article is about the Bantu language. For the ethnic group, see Chopi people. For the aromatic plant, see Zanthoxylum piperitum.
Not to be confused with Chopi language (Sudanic).
| Chopi | |
|---|---|
| Chichopi | |
| Native to | Mozambique |
Native speakers | 760,000 (2006)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
cce |
| Glottolog |
chop1243[2] |
S.61,611[3] | |
| Linguasphere |
99-AUT-cc |
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.[3]
References
- ↑ Chopi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Chopi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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