Bajuni dialect

{{Short description|Variety of Swahili}} {{Infobox language |name=Bajuni |nativename=Kibajuni |states=[[Kenya]], [[Somalia]] |ethnicity=[[Bajuni people|Bajuni]] |speakers=? |familycolor=Niger-Congo |fam2=[[Atlantic–Congo languages|Atlantic–Congo]] |fam3=[[Benue–Congo languages|Benue–Congo]] |fam4=[[Bantoid languages|Bantoid]] |fam5=[[Bantu languages|Bantu]] |fam6=[[Northeast Coast Bantu]] |fam7=[[Sabaki languages|Sabaki]] |fam8=[[Swahili language|Swahili]] |isoexception=dialect |glotto=baju1245 |glottorefname=Bajuni |guthrie=G.41 }}

'''Bajuni''' (''Kibajuni''), also known as '''Tikulu''' (''Tikuu''), is a Bantu language related to [[Swahili language|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.{{sfn|Mwakikagile|2007|p=102}}{{sfn|Abdullahi|2001|p=11}} Maho (2009) considers it a distinct dialect. Nurse & Hinnebusch classify it as a northern dialect of Swahili.{{sfn|Nurse|Hinnebusch|Philipson|1993}}{{page needed|date=April 2024}}

== Consonant Inventory == The consonant inventory is as follows.{{sfn|Nurse|Hinnebusch|Philipson|1993|p=570}}

{| class="wikitable" !colspan="2"| !! Labial !! Dental !! Alveolar !! Palatal !! Velar !! Glottal |- ! rowspan="4" |[[Stop consonant|Stop]] ![[Prenasalized consonant|prenasalized]] |{{IPA link|ᵐb}} |{{IPA link|ⁿd̪}} |{{IPA link|ⁿdr}} |{{IPA link|ⁿɟ}} |{{IPA link|ᵑɡ}} | |- ![[Implosive consonant|implosives]] |({{IPA link|ɓ}}) |({{IPA link|ɗ̪}}) | |{{IPA link|ʄ}} |{{IPA link|ɠ}} | |- ![[Voiceless plosive|voiceless]] unaspirated |{{IPA link|p}} |{{IPA link|t̪}} | |{{IPA link|c}} |{{IPA link|k}} | |- !voiceless aspirated |{{IPA link|pʰ}} |{{IPA link|t̪ʰ}} | |{{IPA link|cʰ}} |{{IPA link|kʰ}} | |- ! rowspan="2" |[[Fricative consonant|Fricative]] ![[Voiced fricative|voiced]] |{{IPA link|v}} |{{IPA link|ð}} | | |({{IPA link|ɣ}}) | |- ![[Voiceless fricative|voiceless]] |{{IPA link|f}} |({{IPA link|θ}}) |{{IPA link|s}} |{{IPA link|ʃ}} |({{IPA link|x}}) |{{IPA link|h}} |- ! colspan="2" |[[Approximant consonant|Approximant]] | | |{{IPA link|l}}, ({{IPA link|r}}) |{{IPA link|j}} |{{IPA link|w}} ({{IPA link|ʋ}}) | |- ! colspan="2" |Nasals |{{IPA link|m}} |{{IPA link|n̪}} |{{IPA link|n}} |{{IPA link|ɲ}} |{{IPA link|ŋ}} | |} Note: {{IPA|[ⁿdr]}} represents a sound pronounced with an r-like offglide.{{sfn|Nurse|Hinnebusch|Philipson|1993|p=151}}

==See also== *[[Bajuni people]]

==Notes== {{reflist}}

==References== *{{Cite book |last=Abdullahi |first=Mohamed Diriye |url=https://archive.org/details/culturecustomsof00diri |title=Culture and customs of Somalia |publisher=Greenwood |year=2001 |isbn=9780313313332 |url-access=registration}} *{{Cite book |last=Mwakikagile |first=Godfrey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lsqjN-t6mP4C |title=Kenya: identity of a nation |publisher=New Africa Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0980258790}} * {{Cite book |last=Nurse |first=Derek |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qa4wDwAAQBAJ&q=nurse+hinnebusch+swahili&pg=PR19 |title=Swahili and Sabaki: A Linguistic History |last2=Hinnebusch |first2=Thomas J. |last3=Philipson |first3=Gérard |date=1993 |publisher=Univ of California Press |isbn=9780520097759 |language=en}} * {{cite web |url=http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~dnurse/ |title=Derek Nurse |publisher=Memorial University of Newfoundland }}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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