grammar draft grammar Shangaji. A Maka or Swahili language of Mozambique. Grammar, texts and wordlist.

grammar draft containing 6 chapters: phonology, nouns, minor word categories, verbs, tenses predication, 3 appendices: verb paradigms, verb + complement paradigms, verb paradigms (revised) and a structure course (given at Leiden University in 2007), work in progress started in 2005 Maud Devos is a linguist doing research on Mozambican Bantu languages, many Shangaji speakers were involved in the making of the grammar draft, especially but not only the main consultants Jorge Nlapa and Amina Sharaama