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The Chopi are a Bantu ethnic group of Mozambique.They have lived primarily in the Zavala region of southern Mozambique, in the Inhambane Province.They traditionally lived a life of subsistence agriculture, traditionally living a rural existence, although many were displaced or killed in the civil war that followed Mozambique's liberation from Portuguese colonial rule in 1975.
Chopi may refer to: Chopi people, an ethnic group of Mozambique; Chopi language, a Bantu language spoken along the southern coast of Mozambique; Chopi blackbird (Gnorimopsar chopi), a bird of family Icteridae; A spice made from Zanthoxylum piperitum, an aromatic plant in the family Rutaceae
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. [ 2 ]
The Maluleke tribe is one of the first of the Beja Tonga tribes which emerged at around 500AD and formed part of the first Chopi and Tsonga Valenge groups in Mozambique and South Africa. The Maluleke tribe, together with their near-relatives, finally settled at the Limpopo river and parts of South Africa led by their tribal leader King ...
Other groups include Makonde, Yao, Swahili, Tonga, Chopi, and Nguni (including Zulu). Bantu people comprise 97.8% of the population, with the rest made up of Portuguese ancestry, Euro-Africans (mestiço people of mixed Bantu and Portuguese ancestry), and Indians. [14] Roughly 45,000 people of Indian descent reside in Mozambique. [108]
The Chopi people of the coastal Inhambane Province are known for a unique kind of xylophone called the mbila (pl: timbila) and the style of music played with it, which "is believed to be the most sophisticated method of composition yet found among preliterate peoples."
More than 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage when Hamas militants launched an attack into Israel on October 7, 2023, according to Israeli authorities. Israel’s subsequent military ...
Hospices exist to provide comfort to people who doctors determine are at the end of their lives, with six months or less to live. The paramount objective, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, a trade association, is to make patients comfortable, with a focus “on enhancing the quality of remaining life.”