Mijikenda | |
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Spoken in | Kenya, Tanzania |
Region | Mombasa and Kwale districts in Kenya; Muheza and Tanga districts in Tanzania |
Ethnicity | Mijikenda |
Native speakers | 1.3 million (1994) |
Language family | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | variously: coh – Chonyi dig – Digo dug – Duruma nyf – Giryama seg – Segeju |
Mijikenda is a Bantu dialect cluster of Kenya, with about 100,000 speakers in Tanzania. The five dialects, mutually intelligible, are: Chichonyi, Chidigo, Chiduruma, Kigiryama, Kisegeju.