Makhuwa (Emakhuwa; also spelt Makua and Macua) is the primary Bantu language of northern Mozambique. It is spoken by four million Makua people, who live north of the Zambezi River, particularly in Nampula Province, which is virtually entirely ethnically Makua.[3] It is the most widely spoken indigenous language of Mozambique.
Apart from the languages in the same group, eMakhuwa is distinguished from other Bantu languages by the loss of consonant + vowel prefixes in favour of e; compare epula, "rain", with Tswana pula.
Long and short vowels distinguish five vowel qualities /i e a o u/, which is unusually sparse for a Bantu language:
omala - to finish
omaala - to paste, stick
omela - to sprout, bud
omeela - to share out
The consonants are more complex: postalveolar tt and tth exist, both p and ph are used. Both x (English "sh") and h exist while x varies with s. Regionally, there are also θ (the "th" of English "thorn"), ð (the "th" of English "seethe"), z and ng. For instance in eLomwe, to which Makhuwa is closely related, the tt of eMakhuwa is represented by a "ch" as in English "church".[3]
^Central Makhuwa at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Makhuwa-Meetto at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Makhuwa-Shirima at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Kokola at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Lolo at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Manyawa at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) (Additional references under 'Language codes' in the information box)
^Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
^ abRelatório do I Seminário sobre a Padronização da Ortografia de Línguas Moçambicanas. NELIMO, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, 1989.
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