Bravanese dialect

Bravanese
Mwiini
Chimwiinimain language before Chimwiinimain was (Aftuni) which is now used as a second main language aftuni in Chimwiini is called chilakata
Native to Somalia
Native speakers
 183,000 (2015)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 (included in swh)
Glottolog mwin1241[2]
G.412[3]

Bravanese, also called Chimwiini (ChiMwini, Mwiini, Mwini) or Chimbalazi[4]) is a variety of Swahili patwa spoken by the Bravanese people, who are the predominant inhabitants of Barawa, or Brava, in Somalia.[5] Maho (2009) considers it a distinct dialect.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "Swahili". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mwini". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. ↑ I. M. Lewis, Islam in tropical Africa, Volume 1964, (International African Institute in association with Indiana University Press: 1980), p.7.
  5. ↑ Abdullahi, p.11.

References

  • Abdullahi, Mohamed Diriye (2001). Culture and customs of Somalia. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-31333-2.


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