Makhuwa language
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| Makhuwa | ||
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| Spoken in: | Mozambique, Tanzania | |
| Region: | Central Africa | |
| Total speakers: | 2.5 million | |
| Language family: | Niger-Congo Atlantic-Congo Volta-Congo Benue-Congo Bantoid Southern Narrow Bantu Central Makua Makhuwa |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ||
| ISO 639-3: | vmw | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
The Makhuwa language (also spelled Makua) is a Bantu language spoken by 5 million Makua people, who live north of the Zambezi River in Mozambique. It is the most important indigenous language of Mozambique.
Makhuwa is closely related to Lomwe.
[edit] External links
- Ethnologue: Language Family Trees
- Ethnologue: Makhuwa language
- Oliver Kröger (2005), Report on a Survey of Coastal Makua Dialects (SIL International)
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