The Bantu-group languages that are indigenous to the country vary greatly in their groupings and in some cases are rather poorly appreciated and documented.Relatório do I Seminário sobre a Padronização da Ortografia de Línguas Moçambicanas. NELIMO, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, 1989. Apart from its lingua franca uses in the north of the country, Swahili is spoken in a small area of the coast next to the Tanzanian border; south of this, towards Moçambique Island, Kimwani, regarded as a dialect of Swahili, is used. Immediately inland of the Swahili area, Makonde is used, separated farther inland by a small strip of Makhuwa-speaking territory from an area where Yao or ChiYao is used. Makonde and Yao belong to a different group, YaoMalangano ga Sambano (Yao New Testament), British and Foreign Bible Society, London, 1952 being very close to the Mwera language of the Rondo Plateau area in Tanzania.Harries, Rev. Lyndon (1950), A Grammar of Mwera. Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg. Prepositions appear in these languages as locative prefixes prefixed to the noun and declined according to their own noun-class. Some Nyanja is used at the coast of Lake Malawi, as well as on the other side of the Lake.Barnes, Herbert (1902), Nyanja – English Vocabulary (mostly of Likoma Island). Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London.ChiChewa Intensive Course, (Chewa is similar to Nyanja) Lilongwe, Malawi, 1969.
The Bantu-group languages that are indigenous to the country vary greatly in their groupings and in some cases are rather poorly appreciated and documented.Relatório do I Seminário sobre a Padronização da Ortografia de Línguas Moçambicanas. NELIMO, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, 1989. Apart from its lingua franca uses in the north of the country, Swahili is spoken in a small area of the coast next to the Tanzanian border; south of this, towards Moçambique Island, Kimwani, regarded as a dialect of Swahili, is used. Immediately inland of the Swahili area, Makonde is used, separated farther inland by a small strip of Makhuwa-speaking territory from an area where Yao or ChiYao is used. Makonde and Yao belong to a different group, YaoMalangano ga Sambano (Yao New Testament), British and Foreign Bible Society, London, 1952 being very close to the Mwera language of the Rondo Plateau area in Tanzania.Harries, Rev. Lyndon (1950), A Grammar of Mwera. Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg. Prepositions appear in these languages as locative prefixes prefixed to the noun and declined according to their own noun-class. Some Nyanja is used at the coast of Lake Malawi, as well as on the other side of the Lake.Barnes, Herbert (1902), Nyanja – English Vocabulary (mostly of Likoma Island). Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London.ChiChewa Intensive Course, (Chewa is similar to Nyanja) Lilongwe, Malawi, 1969.