The Sabaki languages are the
Bantu languages
The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu language, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀), or Ntu languages are a language family of about 600 languages of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern, East Africa, Eastern and Southeast Africa, South ...
of the
Swahili Coast
The Swahili coast () is a coastal area of East Africa, bordered by the Indian Ocean and inhabited by the Swahili people. It includes Sofala (located in Mozambique); Mombasa, Gede, Kenya, Gede, Pate Island, Lamu, and Malindi (in Kenya); and Dar es ...
, named for the
Sabaki River. In addition to
Swahili, Sabaki languages include
Ilwana (Malakote) and
Pokomo on the
Tana River in Kenya,
Mijikenda, spoken on the Kenyan coast;
Comorian, in the Comoro Islands; and
Mwani, spoken in northern Mozambique. 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.''
Languages
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Ilwana (Malakote) (E.701)
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Pokomo (E.71)
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Mijikenda (E.72–73) (North (Nyika), Segeju,
Digo, Degere)
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Comorian languages
Comorian (''Shikomori'', or ''Shimasiwa'', the "language of islands") is the name given to a group of four Bantu languages spoken in the Comoro Islands, an archipelago in the southwestern Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar. It is name ...
,
[Maho (2009)] divided into two groups, Western (Shimwali and Shingazidja) and Eastern (
Shimaore and Shindzwani)
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Mwani (Mozambique)
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Swahili:
Makwe (Mozambique),
Sidi
''Sidi'' or ''Sayidi'', also Sayyidi and Sayeedi, ( (dialectal) "milord") is an Arabic masculine title of respect. ''Sidi'' is used often to mean "saint" or "my master" in Maghrebi Arabic and Egyptian Arabic. Without the
first person possessiv ...
(Pakistan, India),
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.
References
Northeast Coast Bantu languages
Swahili language
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