Sabaki languages

Not to be confused with Nyika language.

Sabaki
Swahili–Nyika
Geographic distribution:	Swahili Coast
Linguistic classification:	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Northeast Coast Bantu Sabaki
Glottolog:	coas1317

The Sabaki languages are the Bantu languages of the Swahili Coast, named for the Sabaki River. In addition to Swahili, they include Ilwana (Malakote) and Pokomo on the Tana River in Kenya, Mijikenda, spoken on the Kenyan coast; and Comorian, in the Comoro Islands. In Guthrie's geographic classification, Swahili is in Bantu zone G, whereas the other Sabaki languages are in zone E70, commonly under the name Nyika.

Languages

• Ilwana (Malakote) (E.701)
• Pokomo (E.71)
• Mijikenda (E.72–73) (North (Nyika), Segeju, Digo, Degere)
• Swahili: Mwani (Mozambique), Makwe (Mozambique), Sidi (Pakistan), Tikulu (Bajuni Islands, Somalia), Socotra Swahili, Mwiini (Brava, Somalia), Coastal Swahili (Lamu, Mombasa, Zanzibar), Pemba Swahili (Pemba, Mafia)
• Comorian (four dialects: Shimaore, Shimwali, Shindzwani, Shingazidja)

In addition, there are several Swahili creoles and pidgins: Cutchi-Swahili, Kisetla (Settler Swahili), Engsh, Sheng, Shaba Swahili (Katanga Swahili, Lubumbashi Swahili), Ngwana (Congo Swahili), Kikeya.