The Makwe or Macue language () is a close relative of
Swahili
Swahili may refer to:
* Swahili language, a Bantu language official in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and widely spoken in the African Great Lakes
* Swahili people, an ethnic group in East Africa
* Swahili culture
Swahili culture is the culture of ...
spoken on the coast of the
Cabo Delgado Province of
Mozambique, and across the border in
Mtwara Region of
Tanzania. Although it shares high lexical similarity (60%) with Swahili, it is not intelligible with it, nor with its cousin
Mwani. Arends et al. suggest it might turn out to be a
Makonde–Swahili
mixed language
A mixed language is a language that arises among a bilingual group combining aspects of two or more languages but not clearly deriving primarily from any single language. It differs from a creole language, creole or pidgin, pidgin language in that ...
.
A grammar of the Makwe language by Maud Devos was published in 2008.
[Devos, Maud (2008). ''A Grammar of Makwe''. LINCOM publishers. .]
References
Languages of Mozambique
Swahili language
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