Northeast Coast Bantu languages
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| Northeast Coast Bantu | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
Tanzania, Kenya |
| Linguistic classification: | Niger–Congo
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The Northeast Coast Bantu languages are the Bantu languages of the northern East African coast, and inland Tanzania as far as Dodoma.[1] In Guthrie's geographic classification, they fall within Bantu zones G and E.
The languages, or clusters, are:
- Pare (G20+E70): Pare (Asu), Taveta
- Sabaki (G40+E70): Swahili, Nyika, etc.
- Seuta (G20+G30): Shambala, Bondei, Zigula (Mushungulu), Ngulu
- Ruvu (G30+G10): Gogo, Sagara, Vidunda, Kaguru, Luguru, Kutu, Kami, Zaramo, Kwere, Doe
Mbugu (Ma'a) is a mixed language based largely on Pare.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Derek Nurse & Thomas Spear, 1985, The Swahili
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