Northeast Coast Bantu languages

Northeast Coast Bantu
Geographic; distribution	Tanzania, Kenya, Comoros
Linguistic classification	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Northeast Coast Bantu; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Glottolog	nort3209[1]

The Northeast Coast Bantu languages are the Bantu languages spoken along the coast of Tanzania and Kenya, and including inland Tanzania as far as Dodoma.[2] In Guthrie's geographic classification, they fall within Bantu zones G and E.

The languages, or clusters, are:

Pare (G20+E70): Pare (Asu), Taveta
Sabaki (G40+E70): Swahili, Nyika, Comorian etc.
Seuta (G20+G30): Shambala, Bondei, Zigula (Mushungulu), Ngulu
Ruvu (G30+G10): Gogo, Sagara, Vidunda, Kaguru, Luguru, Kutu, Kami, Zaramo, Kwere, Doe

The Ruvu languages are 60–70% similar lexically.

Mbugu (Ma'a) is a mixed language based largely on Pare.

Notes

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Northeast Coastal Bantu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Derek Nurse & Thomas Spear, 1985, The Swahili

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