Bajuni dialect

Bajuni
Kibajuni
Native to Kenya, Somalia
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog baju1245[1]
G.41[2]

Bajuni (Kibajuni), also known as Tikulu (Tikuu), is a variety of Swahili spoken by the Bajuni people who inhabit the tiny Bajuni Islands and coastal Kenya, in addition to parts of southern Somalia, where they constitute a minority ethnic group.[3][4] Maho (2009) considers it a distinct language.

See also

Notes

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bajuni". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  3. Mwakikagile, p.102.
  4. Abdullahi, p.11.

References

http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~dnurse/

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