Chuwabu language

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

Chuwabu
Cuabo
Native to	Mozambique
Native speakers	970,000 (2006)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu Southern Bantu Makhuwa languages Chuwabu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: chw – Chuwabo cwb – Maindo
Glottolog	chuw1238  Chuwabu main1272  Maindo
Guthrie code	P.34^[2]

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

References

 

Chuwabu language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

1. Chuwabo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   Maindo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009.

• Guérois, Rozenn (2015). A grammar of Cuwabo (Mozambique, Bantu P34) (PhD thesis). Université Lumière Lyon 2. hdl:1854/LU-8561497.