Northeast Coast Bantu languages

Northeast Coast Bantu
Geographic
distribution:
Tanzania, Kenya, Comoros
Linguistic classification:

Niger–Congo

Glottolog: nort3209[1]

The Northeast Coast Bantu languages are the Bantu languages spoken along the coast of Tanzania and Kenya, and including inland Tanzania as far as Dodoma.[2] In Guthrie's geographic classification, they fall within Bantu zones G and E.

The languages, or clusters, are:

The Ruvu languages are 60–70% similar lexically.

Mbugu (Ma'a) is a mixed language based largely on Pare.

Notes

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Northeast Coastal Bantu". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Derek Nurse & Thomas Spear, 1985, The Swahili


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