Bajuni dialect

Bajuni
Bajuni
Kibajuni
Native to	Kenya, Somalia
Ethnicity	Bajuni people
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Coast Bantu Sabaki Swahili Bajuni; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	baju1245
Guthrie code	G.41

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. Maho (2009) considers it a distinct dialect. Nurse & Hinnebusch (1993) classify it as a Northern Dialect of Swahili.

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