Chuwabu

E534694

Chuwabu is a Bantu language of Mozambique, closely related to Lomwe and spoken by communities in the country’s central and coastal regions.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Chuwabu canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
language
closelyRelatedTo Lomwe
country Mozambique
glottologCode chuw1238
glottologName Chuwabu
hasAlternativeName Chuabo
Cuabo
Cuwabo
hasAncestor Proto-Bantu
Proto-Niger-Congo
linked to: Proto-Niger–Congo
hasDialects coastal Chuwabu
inland Chuwabu
ISO639-3Code chw
languageFamily Bantu
linked to: Bantu languages

Niger-Congo
region central Mozambique
coastal Mozambique
relatedTo Makhuwa
spokenBy Chuwabu people
spokenIn Mozambique
subclassOf Makhuwa-Lomwe language
linked to: Lomwe language

Niger-Congo language
typologicalFeature SVO basic word order
agglutinative morphology
noun class system
usedIn daily communication
local trade
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lomwe closelyRelatedTo Chuwabu
Chuwabu glottologName Chuwabu