Mijikenda language
Mijikenda | |
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Native to | Kenya, Tanzania |
Region | Mombasa and Kwale districts in Kenya; Muheza and Tanga districts in Tanzania |
Ethnicity | Mijikenda, Chonyi |
Native speakers | 1.9 million (2009 census)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
Variously:coh – Chonyidig – Digodug – Durumanyf – Giryamaseg – Segeju |
Glottolog |
miji1238 [2] |
E.72,73,731,732 [3] |
Mijikenda is a Bantu dialect cluster spoken mostly in Kenya, with about 100,000 speakers in Tanzania.
Varieties
Maho (2009) lists four varieties as distinct languages:
Clicks
Clicks have been reported in ideophones from two dialects of Mijikenda, Digo and Duruma. (It is not known if they occur in the others.) These are tsya! /ʇ̃ǎ/ 'scram!' and /ʇ̃akule/ 'minute'. It is not known if these have any connection with the neighbouring Dahalo language.
References
- ↑ Chonyi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Digo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Duruma at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Giryama at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Segeju at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mijikenda". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- Walsh, M.T. (2006). "A Click in Digo and its Historical Interpretation", Azania, 41.
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