Bajuni_dialect

Bajuni dialect

Bajuni dialect

Variety of Swahili

Bajuni (Kibajuni), also known as Tikulu (Tikuu), is a Bantu language related to 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.[2][3] Maho (2009) considers it a distinct dialect. Nurse & Hinnebusch classify it as a northern dialect of Swahili.[4][page needed]

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Consonant Inventory

The consonant inventory is as follows.[5]

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Note: [ⁿdr] represents a sound pronounced with an r-like offglide.[6]

See also

Notes

  1. [1]
    Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  2. [2]
    Mwakikagile 2007, p. 102.
  3. [3]
    Abdullahi 2001, p. 11.
  4. [4]
    Nurse, Hinnebusch & Philipson 1993.
  5. [5]
    Nurse, Hinnebusch & Philipson 1993, p. 570.
  6. [6]
    Nurse, Hinnebusch & Philipson 1993, p. 151.

References

  • Abdullahi, Mohamed Diriye (2001). Culture and customs of Somalia. Greenwood. ISBN 9780313313332.
  • Mwakikagile, Godfrey (2007). Kenya: identity of a nation. New Africa Press. ISBN 978-0980258790.
  • Nurse, Derek; Hinnebusch, Thomas J.; Philipson, Gérard (1993). Swahili and Sabaki: A Linguistic History. Univ of California Press. ISBN 9780520097759.
  • "Derek Nurse". Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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