Makua group

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The Makua group is a cluster of closely related Bantu-speaking ethnic communities primarily inhabiting northern Mozambique and parts of neighboring countries in southeastern Africa.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Beti-Fang group 3
Makua group canonical 1
S.10 Bantu group 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu peoples
ethnic group
human population group
closelyRelatedTo Lomwe people
Makhuwa people
continent Africa
ethnicClusterOf closely related Makua-speaking communities
ethnolinguisticGroupOf Makua language speakers
geographicDistribution coastal and inland areas of northern Mozambique
hasCountry Mozambique
hasLanguage Emakhuwa
Makua languages
surface form: Makua language
hasLanguageBranch Niger–Congo languages
hasLanguageFamily Bantu languages
hasSubgroup Lomwe people
Makhuwa
Makhuwa-Enahara
Makhuwa
surface form: Makhuwa-Marrevone

Makhuwa
surface form: Makhuwa-Meetto

Makhuwa
surface form: Makhuwa-Shirima

Medo people
Naharra people
historicalRegion Mozambique coastal hinterland
inhabits northern Mozambique
parts of Madagascar
parts of Malawi
parts of Tanzania
southeastern Africa
languageFamilyBranch Makua languages
linguisticCharacteristic Bantu noun class system
agglutinative morphology
neighboringGroups Makonde people
Sena people
Yao people
partOf Bantu expansion cultural sphere
practicesReligion Christianity
Islam
primaryCountry Mozambique
region northern Mozambique
subregion southeastern Africa
traditionalCrops cassava
maize
sorghum
traditionalEconomy small-scale trade
subsistence agriculture
traditionalReligion African traditional religion
usesWritingSystem Latin script

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction
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# Requirements
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Input
Subject: Makua group
Description of subject: The Makua group is a cluster of closely related Bantu-speaking ethnic communities primarily inhabiting northern Mozambique and parts of neighboring countries in southeastern Africa.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Southern Bantu hasSubgroup Makua group
Kalanga belongsTo Makua group
this entity surface form: S.10 Bantu group
Beti-Fang languages hasAlternativeName Makua group
this entity surface form: Beti-Fang group
Kolo belongsTo Makua group
this entity surface form: Beti-Fang group
Beti-Fang cluster hasAlternativeName Makua group
this entity surface form: Beti-Fang group