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.[2][3] Maho (2009) considers it a distinct dialect. Nurse & Hinnebusch (1993) classify it as a Northern Dialect of Swahili.
Bajuni | |
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Kibajuni | |
Native to | Kenya, Somalia |
Language family | Niger–Congo?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | baju1245 |
Guthrie code | G.41 [1] |
The consonant inventory is as follows according to Nurse & Hinnebusch (1993:570).[4]
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).[4]
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |