Cutchi-Swahili
| Cutchi-Swahili | |
|---|---|
| Asian Swahili | |
| Native to | Tanzania, Kenya |
| Region | Zanzibar, larger cities |
Native speakers | 45,000 (2002)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
ccl |
| Glottolog |
cutc1238[2] |
G40A,B[3] | |
Cutchi-Swahili is a Swahili-based creole spoken among the Asian (Indian) population of East Africa. It is the native language of some Gujarati families from Zanzibar that have settled in the larger cities of Tanganyika and Kenya, and is used as a second language by others of the Asian community.
Maho (2009) assigns different codes to Cutchi-Swahili and Asian Swahili (Kibabu),[3] and Ethnologue also notes that these may not be the same.[1]
References
- 1 2 Cutchi-Swahili at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Cutchi-Swahili". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- 1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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