Mijikenda language

Mijikenda language
Not to be confused with Nyika language.
Mijikenda
Spoken in Kenya, Tanzania
Region Mombasa and Kwale districts in Kenya; Muheza and Tanga districts in Tanzania
Ethnicity Mijikenda
Native speakers 1.3 million  (1994)
Language family
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 variously:
coh – Chonyi
dig – Digo
dug – Duruma
nyf – Giryama
seg – Segeju

Mijikenda is a Bantu dialect cluster of Kenya, with about 100,000 speakers in Tanzania. The five dialects, mutually intelligible, are: Chichonyi, Chidigo, Chiduruma, Kigiryama, Kisegeju.

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