East African languages

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East African languages are a diverse group of Bantu and Cushitic languages spoken across countries like Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and neighboring regions, many of which have significantly shaped regional creoles and lingua francas.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
East African languages canonical 4

Statements (84)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language group
linguistic area
areInfluencedBy Arabic
surface form: Arabic language

English
surface form: English language

German
surface form: German language

Indian Ocean trade languages
Portuguese language
areKnownFor contact-induced change
extensive verbal morphology in Bantu languages
high multilingualism
rich noun class systems in Bantu languages
root-and-pattern morphology in Cushitic and Semitic languages
arePartOf African languages
African languages
surface form: Sub-Saharan African languages
hasCreoleInfluenceOn Comorian (Shikomori)
Seychellois Creole
Swahili-based creoles
Tanzanian coastal pidgins
hasLinguaFranca Amharic
Kinyarwanda
Kirundi
Swahili language
surface form: Kiswahili

Luganda
Oromo
Somali
Swahili
hasMajorFamily Afroasiatic languages
Bantu languages
Cushitic languages
Niger–Congo languages
surface form: Niger-Congo languages

Nilo-Saharan languages
Nilotic languages
hasWritingSystem Ajami
Arabic alphabet
surface form: Arabic script

Geʽez script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
includesLanguage Amharic
Chaga
Chichewa
Comorian (Shikomori)
Ganda
Gikuyu
Haya
Hehe
Kamba
surface form: Kamba (Kikamba)

Kenyan Sign Language
Kikuyu
Kinyarwanda
Kirundi
Swahili language
surface form: Kiswahili

Luganda
Luhya
Dholuo
surface form: Luo (Dholuo)

Maasai
surface form: Maasai (Maa)

Makonde
Meru
surface form: Meru (Kimeru)

Oromo
Rundi
Runyankole
Seychellois Creole
Shona
Somali
Sukuma
Swahili language
surface form: Swahili

Tanzanian Sign Language
Tigrinya
spokenIn Burundi
Comoros
Democratic Republic of the Congo
East Africa
Ethiopia
Kenya
Madagascar
Mozambique
Rwanda
Somalia
South Sudan
Tanzania
Uganda
usedAs languages of education
languages of media
languages of religion
regional lingua francas
vernacular languages

Referenced by (4)

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

Seychellois Creole influencedBy East African languages
Mauritian Creole hasInfluenceFromLanguage East African languages
Kreol Seselwa hasLexicalInfluenceFrom East African languages
Morisien hasSubstrateLanguage East African languages