Chopi language
This article is about a Bantu language. For an ethnic group, see Chopi people. For an aromatic plant, see Zanthoxylum piperitum.
Not to be confused with Chopi language (Sudanic).
| Chopi | |
|---|---|
| Chichopi | |
| Native to | Mozambique |
Native speakers | 760,000 (2006)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| 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)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Chopi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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