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Chopi language

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Native to
  
Mozambique

Dialects
  
Lenge

Glottolog
  
chop1243

Native speakers
  
760,000 (2006)

ISO 639-3
  
cce

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu Southern Chopi (S.60)? Chopi

Chopi, also spelled Copi, Tschopi, and Txopi, is a Bantu language spoken along the southern coast of Mozambique.

Maho (2009) lists the possibly extinct Lenge dialect as a distinct language.

References

Chopi language Wikipedia