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 Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Southern Bantu Makua Chuwabu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: chw – Chuwabo cwb – Maindo
Glottolog	chuw1238  Chuwabu[2] main1272  Maindo[3]
Guthrie code	P.34[4]

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

References

1. Chuwabo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Maindo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Chuwabu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Maindo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
4. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

• Guérois, Rozenn (2015). A grammar of Cuwabo (Mozambique, Bantu P34) (PhD thesis). Université Lumière Lyon 2. hdl:1854/LU-8561497.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)