Shimaore

E287231

Shimaore is a Bantu language closely related to Comorian, widely spoken by the local population of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Shimaore canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
natural language
branchOf Niger–Congo languages
surface form: Niger–Congo language family
closelyRelatedTo Comorian language
coexistsWithLanguage Arabic
French
Kibushi
Malagasy
hasAlternativeName Mahorais
Mahorian
Maore
Maore Comorian
hasISOCode swb
hasLinguisticAncestor Proto-Bantu
Proto-Niger–Congo
hasMorphologicalFeature noun class system
hasPhonologicalFeature typical Bantu consonant system
hasStatus regional language in France
influencedBy Arabic
French
Swahili language
surface form: Swahili
isMajorityLanguageIn Mayotte
isMinorityLanguageIn France
isSpokenBy Mahoran people
local population of Mayotte
isTaughtIn some schools in Mayotte
isVarietyOf Comorian
languageFamily Bantu languages
surface form: Bantu
lexicalSimilarityWith other Comorian varieties
region Comoros
surface form: Comoros archipelago
sharesVocabularyWith Swahili language
surface form: Swahili

other Comorian dialects
spokenIn Mayotte
surface form: French overseas department of Mayotte

Indian Ocean Region
surface form: Indian Ocean region

Mayotte
subfamilyOf Comorian languages
subjectOf language preservation efforts in Mayotte
usedInDomain everyday communication
local media in Mayotte
oral tradition in Mayotte
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Mayotte regionalLanguage Shimaore
Kibushi coexistsWith Shimaore