Chopi language
| Chopi | |
|---|---|
| Chichopi | |
| Native to | Mozambique |
Native speakers | 760,000 (2006)[1] |
|
Niger–Congo
| |
| Dialects |
Lenge
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
cce |
| Glottolog |
chop1243[2] |
S.61,611[3] | |
| Linguasphere |
99-AUT-cc |
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
- ↑ Chopi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Chopi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online