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.

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Label Occurrences
Chuwabu canonical 1

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Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
language
closelyRelatedTo Lomwe NERFINISHED
country Mozambique NERFINISHED
glottologCode chuw1238
glottologName Chuwabu NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Chuabo NERFINISHED
Cuabo NERFINISHED
Cuwabo NERFINISHED
hasAncestor Proto-Bantu NERFINISHED
Proto-Niger-Congo NERFINISHED
hasDialects coastal Chuwabu
inland Chuwabu
ISO639-3Code chw
languageFamily Bantu NERFINISHED
Niger-Congo NERFINISHED
region central Mozambique
coastal Mozambique
relatedTo Makhuwa NERFINISHED
spokenBy Chuwabu people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Mozambique NERFINISHED
subclassOf Makhuwa-Lomwe language NERFINISHED
Niger-Congo language
typologicalFeature SVO basic word order
agglutinative morphology
noun class system
usedIn daily communication
local trade
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Lomwe closelyRelatedTo Chuwabu