Sabaki languages

{{Short description|Bantu subfamily of the Swahili Coast, named for the Sabaki River}} {{distinguish|Nyika language}} {{Infobox language family |name=Sabaki |altname=Swahili–Nyika |region=[[Swahili Coast]] |familycolor=Niger-Congo |fam2=[[Atlantic–Congo languages|Atlantic–Congo]] |fam3=[[Volta–Congo languages|Volta–Congo]] |fam4=[[Benue–Congo languages|Benue–Congo]] |fam5=[[Bantoid languages|Bantoid]] |fam6=[[Southern Bantoid languages|Southern Bantoid]] |fam7=[[Bantu languages|Bantu]] |fam8=[[Northeast Bantu languages|Northeast Bantu]] |fam9=[[Northeast Coast Bantu languages|Northeast Coast Bantu]] |protoname=Proto-Sabaki<ref name="nurse">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lGwnDwAAQBAJ&dq=proto+sabaki&pg=PA48|title=The Swahili: Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500|isbn=9781512821666|last1=Nurse|first1=Derek|last2=Spear|first2=Thomas|date=10 June 2017}}</ref><ref name="nursehinnebusch">{{Cite book|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/290785|isbn=9780520097759|title=Swahili and Sabaki: A linguistic history|series=University of California publications in linguistics|year=1993|publisher=University of California Press|first1=Derek|last1=Nurse|first2=Thomas J.|last2=Hinnebusch}}</ref> |glotto=coas1317 |glottorefname=Coastal NEC Bantu }}

The '''Sabaki languages''' are the [[Bantu languages]] of the [[Swahili Coast]], named for the [[Athi-Galana-Sabaki River|Sabaki River]]. In addition to [[Swahili language|Swahili]], Sabaki languages include [[Ilwana language|Ilwana]] (Malakote) and [[Pokomo language|Pokomo]] on the [[Tana River (Kenya)|Tana River]] in Kenya, [[Mijikenda language|Mijikenda]], spoken on the Kenyan coast; [[Comorian language|Comorian]], in the Comoro Islands; and [[Mwani language|Mwani]], spoken in northern Mozambique.<ref name="nursehinnebusch"/> In [[Guthrie classification of Bantu languages|Guthrie's geographic classification]], Swahili is in Bantu zone G, whereas the other Sabaki languages are in zone E70, commonly under the name ''Nyika.''

==Languages== *[[Ilwana language|Ilwana]] (Malakote) (E.701) *[[Pokomo language|Pokomo]] (E.71) *[[Mijikenda language|Mijikenda]] (E.72–73) (North (Nyika), Segeju, [[Digo language|Digo]], Degere) *[[Comorian languages]],<ref>Maho (2009)</ref> divided into two groups, Western (Shimwali and Shingazidja) and Eastern ([[Shimaore]] and Shindzwani) *[[Mwani language|Mwani]] (Mozambique) *[[Swahili language|Swahili]]: [[Makwe language|Makwe]] (Mozambique), [[Sidi language|Sidi]] (Pakistan, India), [[Tikulu language|Tikulu]] (Bajuni Islands, Somalia), [[Socotra Swahili]], [[Mwiini language|Mwiini]] (Brava, Somalia), Coastal Swahili (Lamu, Mombasa, Zanzibar), Pemba Swahili (Pemba, Mafia)

In addition, there are several Swahili creoles and pidgins: [[Cutchi-Swahili]], [[Kisetla]] (Settler Swahili), [[Engsh]], [[Sheng slang|Sheng]], [[Shaba Swahili]] (Katanga Swahili, Lubumbashi Swahili), [[Ngwana]] (Congo Swahili), [[Kikeya]].

==References== {{page numbers needed|date=July 2013}} {{Reflist}}

[[Category:Northeast Coast Bantu languages]] [[Category:Swahili language]]