Kibushi

E181163

Kibushi is a Bantu language spoken primarily in Mayotte, where it serves as one of the island’s main regional languages.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kibushi canonical 4
Shibushi 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
natural language
alternateName Kibushi Mahorais
Kibushi
surface form: Shibushi
coexistsWith French
Sakalava Malagasy
surface form: Malagasy (Sakalava-related varieties)

Shimaore
continent Africa
country France
hasLinguisticArea Southwest Indian Ocean linguistic area
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalType Bantu-type phonology
hasSpeakersIn Indian Ocean Region
surface form: Indian Ocean region
hasType spoken language
hasWordOrder SVO (subject–verb–object)
influencedBy Comorian language
surface form: Comorian languages

French
Malagasy
isMinorityLanguageIn France
isSpokenBy Kibushi-speaking community of Mayotte
languageFamily Bantu languages
surface form: Bantu
languageStatus regional language
primaryRegion Mayotte
region Comoros
surface form: Comoro Islands
role regional language of Mayotte
spokenIn Mayotte
subfamily Narrow Bantu
usedFor daily communication in Mayotte
usedIn informal domains in Mayotte
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mayotte regionalLanguage Kibushi
Grande-Terre hasCommonLanguage Kibushi
subject surface form: Grande-Terre (Mayotte)
Kibushi alternateName Kibushi
this entity surface form: Shibushi