Chopi language should not be confused with Chopi language (Sudanic).
Chopi | |
Nativename: | Chichopi |
States: | Mozambique |
Speakers: | million |
Date: | 2017 |
Ref: | e26 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Volta-Congo |
Fam4: | Benue–Congo |
Fam5: | Bantoid |
Fam6: | Southern Bantoid |
Fam7: | Bantu |
Fam8: | Southern Bantu |
Fam9: | Chopi (S.60)? |
Dia1: | Lenge |
Iso3: | cce |
Glotto: | chop1243 |
Glottorefname: | Chopi |
Lingua: | 99-AUT-cc incl. varieties 99-AUT-cca...-ccd |
Guthrie: | S.61,611 |
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.