Bajuni dialect

Bajuni (Kibajuni), also known as Tikulu (Tikuu), is a Bantu language related to Swahili spoken by the Bajuni people who inhabit the tiny Bajuni Islands and coastal Kenya, in addition to parts of southern Somalia, where they constitute a minority ethnic group. Maho (2009) considers it a distinct dialect. Nurse & Hinnebusch classify it as a northern dialect of Swahili.^{[page needed]}

Consonant Inventory

The consonant inventory is as follows.

Note: [ⁿdr] represents a sound pronounced with an r-like offglide.

See also

• Bajuni people

Notes

References

• Abdullahi, Mohamed Diriye (2001). Culture and customs of Somalia. Greenwood. ISBN 9780313313332.
• Mwakikagile, Godfrey (2007). Kenya: identity of a nation. New Africa Press. ISBN 978-0980258790.
• Nurse, Derek; Hinnebusch, Thomas J.; Philipson, Gérard (1993). Swahili and Sabaki: A Linguistic History. Univ of California Press. ISBN 9780520097759.
• "Derek Nurse". Memorial University of Newfoundland.^{[permanent dead link]}