Chopi language

Not to be confused with Chopi language (Sudanic).
Chopi
Chichopi
Native to Mozambique
Native speakers
760,000 (2006)[1]
Dialects
Lenge
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cce
Glottolog chop1243[2]
S.61,611[3]
Linguasphere 99-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.[3]

References

  1. Chopi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Chopi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. 1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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