Makhuwa-Shirima language
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Makhuwa-Shirima | ||
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Spoken in: | Mozambique | |
Region: | Central Africa | |
Total speakers: | 500,000 | |
Language family: | Niger-Congo Atlantic-Congo Volta-Congo Benue-Congo Bantoid Southern Narrow Bantu Central Makua Makhuwa-Shirima |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | ||
ISO 639-3: | vmk | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. |
The Makhuwa-Shirima language is a Bantu language spoken by half a million Makua people in Mozambique.
Makhuwa-Shirima is closely related to Makhuwa and is part of the Makua languages.