Digo language

Digo
Digo
Chidigo
Native to	Kenya, Tanzania
Region	Mombasa and Kwale districts in Kenya; Muheza and Tanga districts in Tanzania
Ethnicity	Digo people
Native speakers	580,000 (2009–2019)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Coast Bantu Sabaki Mijikenda Digo; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dig
Glottolog	digo1243
Guthrie code	E.73

Digo (Chidigo) is a Bantu language spoken primarily along the East African coast between Mombasa and Tanga by the Digo people of Kenya and Tanzania. The ethnic Digo population has been estimated at around 360,000 (Mwalonya et al. 2004), the majority of whom are presumably speakers of the language. All adult speakers of Digo are bilingual in Swahili, East Africa's lingua franca. The two languages are closely related, and Digo also has much vocabulary borrowed from neighbouring Swahili dialects.

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