Bravanese dialect

Bravanese
Mwiini
Chimwiini
Native to Somalia
Native speakers
180,000 all Swahili in Somalia (2006)[1]
Language codes
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

  1. Ethnologue report for Somalia
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mwini". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. I. M. Lewis, Islam in tropical Africa, Volume 1964, (International African Institute in association with Indiana University Press: 1980), p.7.
  5. Abdullahi, p.11.

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