Chindau is a transnational language straddling the south-eastern and south-western borders of Mozambique and Zimbabwe. It is spoken by an approximate total population of 1.5 million speakers. It has five mutually intelligible varieties namely, Shanga and Danda, spoken in Mozambique, Garwe and Tonga, spoken exclusively in Zimbabwe, and Ndaundau/Ndau which straddles the arbitrarily drawn international border between the two countries. According to Malcolm Guthrie’s classification of languages, Ndau (s.15) falls in the Bantu language group within the Shona language zone (s.10). Thus it shares strong linguistic and cultural similarities with Clement Doke’s Shona varieties such as Manyika, Karanga, Korekore and Zezuru.