Chopi language
Chopi, also spelled Copi, Tschopi, and Txopi, is a Bantu language spoken along the southern coast of Mozambique.
This article is about the Bantu language. For the ethnic group, see Chopi people. For the aromatic plant, see Zanthoxylum piperitum.
| Chopi | |
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| Chichopi | |
| Native to | Mozambique |
Native speakers | 760,000 (2006)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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| ISO 639-3 | cce |
| Glottolog | chop1243[2] |
S.61,611[3] | |
| Linguasphere | 99-AUT-cc |
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.
- Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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