Sabaki languages

Not to be confused with Nyika language.

Sabaki
Swahili-Nyika
Geographic distribution:	East African coast
Linguistic classification:	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Northeast Coast Bantu Sabaki
Subdivisions:	—

The Sabaki languages are the Bantu languages of the Central East African coast that include Swahili, named for the Sabaki River. The other languages are Ilwana (Malakote) and Pokomo on the Tana River in Kenya, and Mijikenda.^[1] Ethnologue considers Mijikenda to be five languages, and Swahili-Comorian to be eight. In Guthrie's geographic classification, Swahili is in Bantu zone G, whereas the other Sabaki languages are in zone E70, commonly under the name Nyika.

Languages

By Ethnologue count, they are:

Ilwana (Malakote)
Pokomo
Mijikenda (Segeju, Giryama (Nyika), Duruma, Digo, Chonyi)
Swahili–Comorian

Mwani (Mozambique), Makwe (Mozambique), Swahili, Congo Swahili, Shimaore (Comoros), Mwali (Comoros), Ndzwani (Comoros), Ngazidja (Comoros)

Notes

^ Derek Nurse & Thomas Spear, 1985, The Swahili