Bajuni dialect

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 dialect. Nurse & Hinnebusch (1993) classify it as a Northern Dialect of Swahili.

Bajuni
Kibajuni
Native toKenya, Somalia
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologbaju1245[1]
G.41[2]

Consonant Inventory

The consonant inventory is as follows according to Nurse & Hinnebusch (1993:570).[5]

Labial Labio-dental Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Stop prenasalized ᵐb ⁿd̪ ⁿdr ⁿɟ ᵑɡ
implosives (ɓ) (ɗ̪) ʄ ɠ
voiceless unaspirated p t̪ c k
voiceless aspirated pʰ t̪ʰ cʰ kʰ
Fricative voiced v ð (ɣ)
voiceless f (θ) s ʃ (x) h
Approximant w (ʋ) l, (r) j w (ʋ)
Nasals m n̪ n ɲ ŋ

Note: [ⁿdr] represents a sound pronounced with an r-like offglide (Nurse & Hinnebusch 1993: 151).[5]

See also

Notes
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bajuni". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: 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.
  5. Nurse, Derek; Hinnebusch, Thomas J.; Philipson, Gérard (1993). Swahili and Sabaki: A Linguistic History. Univ of California Press. ISBN 9780520097759.

References

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

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