1A member of a people inhabiting the border regions of Mozambique, Malawi, and Tanzania.
马夸人（居住在莫桑比克、马拉维和坦桑尼亚交界地区）
Example sentencesExamples
The leaflet accused President Chissano of regionalism, and of discriminating against Makuas (the main ethnic group in Nampula).
Slaves bought in Mozambique were often from the Makua, Yao or Maravi groups, who practised dental decoration of the patterns noted in these skeletons.
Indeed, a privilege to contribute to the work here between the Makuas.
Makua people maintain strongly that they trust in God- ‘the invisible one’ and dispute bitterly claim that before the arrival of the Arabs and the white man Makuas were pagans and worshipped trees and idols.
On his mother's side, he is a descendent of the Makuas, a group of Muslim East African slaves who were shipwrecked off the coast of South Africa in 1855.
2mass nounThe Bantu language of the Makua, with around 3.5 million speakers.
马夸语（一种班图语，约有350万人使用）
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In the north, the Bantu languages of Yao and Makua predominate; in the Zambezi Valley, it is Nyanja is the dominant languages; and in the south, Tsonga is spoken.
This continuum is then used as a grid in discussing the status of the varieties of Makua and their potential for language development.
The EA omits key oral history data that establishes the importance of Makua to cultural practitioners.
Origin
A local name.
Definition of Makua in US English:
Makua
nounˈmako͞oə
1A member of a people inhabiting the border regions of Mozambique, Malawi, and Tanzania.
马夸人（居住在莫桑比克、马拉维和坦桑尼亚交界地区）
Example sentencesExamples
On his mother's side, he is a descendent of the Makuas, a group of Muslim East African slaves who were shipwrecked off the coast of South Africa in 1855.
Indeed, a privilege to contribute to the work here between the Makuas.
Slaves bought in Mozambique were often from the Makua, Yao or Maravi groups, who practised dental decoration of the patterns noted in these skeletons.
Makua people maintain strongly that they trust in God- ‘the invisible one’ and dispute bitterly claim that before the arrival of the Arabs and the white man Makuas were pagans and worshipped trees and idols.
The leaflet accused President Chissano of regionalism, and of discriminating against Makuas (the main ethnic group in Nampula).
2The Bantu language of the Makua.
Example sentencesExamples
In the north, the Bantu languages of Yao and Makua predominate; in the Zambezi Valley, it is Nyanja is the dominant languages; and in the south, Tsonga is spoken.
The EA omits key oral history data that establishes the importance of Makua to cultural practitioners.
This continuum is then used as a grid in discussing the status of the varieties of Makua and their potential for language development.