Bajuni | |
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Kibajuni | |
Native to | Kenya, Somalia |
Ethnicity | Bajuni |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | baju1245 |
G.41 [1] |
Bajuni (Kibajuni), also known as Tikulu (Tikuu), is a Bantu language related to Swahili spoken by the Bajuni people who inhabit the tiny Bajuni Islands and coastal Kenya, in addition to parts of southern Somalia, where they constitute a minority ethnic group.[2][3] Maho (2009) considers it a distinct dialect. Nurse & Hinnebusch classify it as a northern dialect of Swahili.[4][page needed]
The consonant inventory is as follows.[5]
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Stop | prenasalized | ᵐb | ⁿd̪ | ⁿdr | ⁿɟ | ᵑɡ | |
implosives | (ɓ) | (ɗ̪) | ʄ | ɠ | |||
voiceless unaspirated | p | t̪ | c | k | |||
voiceless aspirated | pʰ | t̪ʰ | cʰ | kʰ | |||
Fricative | voiced | v | ð | (ɣ) | |||
voiceless | f | (θ) | s | ʃ | (x) | h | |
Approximant | l, (r) | j | w (ʋ) | ||||
Nasals | m | n̪ | n | ɲ | ŋ |
Note: [ⁿdr] represents a sound pronounced with an r-like offglide.[6]