Northeast Coast Bantu languages

Northeast Coast Bantu
Geographic
distribution:
Tanzania, Kenya
Linguistic classification: Niger–Congo
Subdivisions:

The Northeast Coast Bantu languages are the Bantu languages of the northern East African coast, and inland Tanzania as far as Dodoma.[1] In Guthrie's geographic classification, they fall within Bantu zones G and E.

The languages, or clusters, are:

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

Notes

  1. ^ Derek Nurse & Thomas Spear, 1985, The Swahili