Sabaki languages

Sabaki languages
Not to be confused with Nyika language.
Sabaki
Swahili-Nyika
Geographic
distribution:		 East African coast
Linguistic classification: Niger–Congo
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Benue–Congo
      • Bantoid
        • Bantu
          • Northeast Bantu
            • Northeast Coast Bantu
              • Sabaki
Subdivisions:
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The Sabaki languages are the Bantu languages of the Central East African coast that include Swahili, named for the Sabaki River. The other languages are Ilwana (Malakote) and Pokomo on the Tana River in Kenya, and Mijikenda.[1] Ethnologue considers Mijikenda to be five languages, and Swahili-Comorian to be eight. 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

By Ethnologue count, they are:

Mwani (Mozambique), Makwe (Mozambique), Swahili, Congo Swahili, Shimaore (Comoros), Mwali (Comoros), Ndzwani (Comoros), Ngazidja (Comoros)

Notes

  1. ^ Derek Nurse & Thomas Spear, 1985, The Swahili



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