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Chuwabu language

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Native to
  
Mozambique

Guthrie code
  
P.34

Native speakers
  
970,000 (2006)

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Southern Bantu Makua Chuwabu

ISO 639-3
  
Either: chw – Chuwabo cwb – Maindo

Glottolog
  
chuw1238  (Chuwabu) main1272  (Maindo)

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

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

References

Chuwabu language Wikipedia