Chonyi language

Chonyi
	"Chichonyi"
Native to	Kenya
Region	Kilifi County
Ethnicity	Chonyi people
Native speakers	184,000 (2009)
Language family	Niger-Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Coast Bantu Mijikenda Chonyi; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	coh
Glottolog	chon1287[1]
Guthrie code	E72c[2]

Chonyi (Conyi, Kichonyi, Chichonyi) is a Bantu language spoken along the eastern coast of Kenya in Kilifi County by the Chonyi people. It is part of the Mijikenda dialect cluster.

In 2009 there were an estimated 184,000 speakers. Of these, 35,200 spoke the linguistic variety Jibana (Dzihana, Chidzhihana) which is grouped together with Chonyi.[3]

References

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Chonyi-Dzihana-Kauma". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
"Chichonyi-Chidzihana-Chikauma". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-10-24.

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[Glottolog-1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Chonyi-Dzihana-Kauma". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[Guthrie-2] Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

[3] "Chichonyi-Chidzihana-Chikauma". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-10-24.