Chindau

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Chindau is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Ndau people in parts of Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Chindau canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (38)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
natural language
belongsTo Ndau cultural region
closelyRelatedTo Shona dialect cluster
country Mozambique
Zimbabwe
ethnicGroup Ndau
glottologCode ndau1244
hasAlternativeName ChiNdau
Ndau
hasAncestor Proto-Bantu
Proto-Niger-Congo
linked to: Proto-Niger–Congo
hasDialects Ndau dialects
hasISO639-3Code ndc
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature noun class system
tone language
hasSyntacticFeature basic SVO word order
languageBranch Atlantic–Congo languages
Benue–Congo languages
Niger-Congo languages
Southern Bantoid languages
linked to: Southern Bantoid
languageFamily Bantu
linked to: Bantu languages
region eastern Zimbabwe
western Mozambique
relatedTo Karanga language
Manyika language
Shona language
linked to: Shona

Zezuru language
spokenBy Ndau people
spokenIn Mozambique
Zimbabwe
subfamily Shona group
linked to: Shona

Southern Bantu languages
usedFor daily communication
local trade
traditional oral literature
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.

Ndau hasAlternativeName Chindau
Cindau hasAlternativeName Chindau