Bravanese dialect
Bravanese | |
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Mwiini | |
Chimwiini | |
Native to | Somalia |
Native speakers | 180,000 all Swahili in Somalia (2006)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | (included in swh) |
Glottolog |
mwin1241 [2] |
G.412 [3] |
Bravanese, also called Chimwiini (ChiMwini, Mwiini, Mwini) or Chimbalazi[4]) is a variety of Swahili spoken by the Bravanese people, who are the predominant inhabitants of Barawa, or Brava, in Somalia.[5] Maho (2009) considers it a distinct language.
See also
Notes
- ↑ Ethnologue report for Somalia
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mwini". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ I. M. Lewis, Islam in tropical Africa, Volume 1964, (International African Institute in association with Indiana University Press: 1980), p.7.
- ↑ Abdullahi, p.11.
References
- Abdullahi, Mohamed Diriye (2001). Culture and customs of Somalia. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-31333-2.
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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