Not to be confused with Nyika language.
| Mijikenda | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | Kenya, Tanzania |
| Region | Mombasa and Kwale districts in Kenya; Muheza and Tanga districts in Tanzania |
| Ethnicity | Mijikenda, Chonyi |
| Native speakers | 1.3 million (1994) |
| Language family | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously: coh – Chonyi dig – Digo dug – Duruma nyf – Giryama seg – Segeju |
Mijikenda is a Bantu dialect cluster of Kenya, with about 100,000 speakers in Tanzania. The five dialects, mutually intelligible, are: Chichonyi, Chidigo, Chiduruma, Kigiryama, Kisegeju.
Clicks [link]
Clicks have been reported in ideophones from two dialects of Mijikenda, Digo and Duruma. (It is not known if they occur in the others.) These are tsya! /ʇ̃ǎ/ 'scram!' and /ʇ̃akule/ 'minute'. It is not known if these have any connection with the neighboring language Dahalo.
References [link]
- Walsh, M.T. (2006). "A Click in Digo and its Historical Interpretation", Azania, 41.
https://wn.com/Mijikenda_language
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