Chimwiini

E512925

Chimwiini is a Bantu language of the Sabaki subgroup spoken primarily along the southern Somali coast, closely related to Swahili.

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Label Occurrences
Chimwiini canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
Sabaki language
alternativeName Bravanese NERFINISHED
Bravanese Swahili NERFINISHED
Chimiini NERFINISHED
Mwiini NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Kiswahili NERFINISHED
Swahili NERFINISHED
country Somalia NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus endangered language
threatened
glottocode chim1300
hasConsonantInventory includes prenasalized stops
hasDialect Brava variety
hasLinguisticFeature agreement with noun classes
complex tense–aspect–mood system
noun class system
phonemic vowel length
rich verbal morphology
tone or pitch accent
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasVowelInventory five-vowel system
hasWordOrder SVO
ISO639-3Code cwb
isVarietyOf Swahili macrolanguage (broad sense) NERFINISHED
languageFamily Bantu NERFINISHED
Niger–Congo NERFINISHED
namedAfter Brava NERFINISHED
region southern Somalia NERFINISHED
sharesLexiconWith Standard Swahili NERFINISHED
other Sabaki languages
spokenAlong southern Somali coast
spokenIn Baraawe NERFINISHED
Brava NERFINISHED
Somalia NERFINISHED
standardLanguageOf Bravanese community
subgroupOf Bantu languages NERFINISHED
Northeast Coast Bantu languages NERFINISHED
Sabaki subgroup
usedAs community language
usedBy Bravanese people NERFINISHED
usedIn daily communication
oral tradition
religious contexts
writingSystem Arabic script NERFINISHED
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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