The Sabaki languages are the Bantu languages of the Central East African coast that include Swahili, named for the Sabaki River. The other languages are Ilwana (Malakote) and Pokomo on the Tana River in Kenya, and Mijikenda.^[1] Ethnologue considers Mijikenda to be five languages, and Swahili-Comorian to be eight. 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 [link]

By Ethnologue count, they are:

• Ilwana (Malakote)
• Pokomo
• Mijikenda (Segeju, Giryama (Nyika), Duruma, Digo, Chonyi)
• Swahili–Comorian

Mwani (Mozambique), Makwe (Mozambique), Swahili, Congo Swahili, Shimaore (Comoros), Mwali (Comoros), Ndzwani (Comoros), Ngazidja (Comoros)

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