Sabaki languages

The Sabaki languages are the Bantu languages of the Swahili Coast, named for the Sabaki River. In addition to Swahili, they include Ilwana (Malakote) and Pokomo on the Tana River in Kenya, Mijikenda, spoken on the Kenyan coast; and Comorian, in the Comoro Islands.[2] In Guthrie's geographic classification, Swahili is in Bantu zone G, whereas the other Sabaki languages are in zone E70, commonly under the name Nyika.

Not to be confused with Nyika language.
Sabaki
Swahili–Nyika
Geographic
distribution		Swahili Coast
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo
Glottologcoas1317[1]

Languages
  • Ilwana (Malakote) (E.701)
  • Pokomo (E.71)
  • Mijikenda (E.72–73) (North (Nyika), Segeju, Digo, Degere)
  • Shimaore, Shimwali and Shindzwani which are three dialects of the same language.
  • Shingazidja [3]
  • Swahili: Mwani (Mozambique), Makwe (Mozambique), Sidi (Pakistan), Tikulu (Bajuni Islands, Somalia), Socotra Swahili, Mwiini (Brava, Somalia), Coastal Swahili (Lamu, Mombasa, Zanzibar), Pemba Swahili (Pemba, Mafia)


In addition, there are several Swahili creoles and pidgins: Cutchi-Swahili, Kisetla (Settler Swahili), Engsh, Sheng, Shaba Swahili (Katanga Swahili, Lubumbashi Swahili), Ngwana (Congo Swahili), Kikeya.

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gollark: What does that actually *mean* in practice?
gollark: What predictions does it make which regular people can test easily?
gollark: You say I can experiment too, so... how, exactly?
gollark: Can you actually *give* one instead of just continuously pointing people toward other stuff?

References
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Coastal NEC Bantu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Derek Nurse & Thomas Spear, 1985, The Swahili
  3. Maho (2009)


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