Chuwabu language

Chuwabu
Cuabo
Native to Mozambique
Native speakers
 970,000  (2006)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
chw – Chuwabo
cwb – Maindo
Glottolog chuw1238  (Chuwabu)[2]
main1272  (Maindo)[3]
P.34[4]

Chuwabo (Echuwabo), also spelled Cuabo and Txuwabo, is a Bantu language spoken along the central coast of Mozambique.

Maindo, though customarily considered a separate language, is close enough to be a dialect of Chuwabo.

References

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