Makhuwa language
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| Makhuwa | ||
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| Spoken in: |  Mozambique Tanzania |
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| 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. | ||
The Makhuwa language (also spelled Makua and "Macua") is a Bantu language spoken by 2.5 million Makua people, who live north of the Zambezi River in Mozambique, particularly in the province of Nampula. 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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