Bajuni dialect
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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.
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | prenasalized | ᵐb | ⁿd̪ | ⁿdr | ⁿɟ | ᵑɡ | |
| implosives | (ɓ) | (ɗ̪) | ʄ | ɠ | |||
| voiceless unaspirated | p | t̪ | c | k | |||
| voiceless aspirated | pʰ | t̪ʰ | cʰ | kʰ | |||
| Fricative | voiced | v | ð | (ɣ) | |||
| voiceless | f | (θ) | s | ʃ | (x) | h | |
| Approximant | l, (r) | j | w (ʋ) | ||||
| Nasals | m | n̪ | n | ɲ | ŋ |
Note: [ⁿdr] represents a sound pronounced with an r-like offglide.
See also
Notes
- Abdullahi, Mohamed Diriye (2001). . Greenwood. ISBN 9780313313332.
- Mwakikagile, Godfrey (2007). . New Africa Press. ISBN 978-0980258790.
- Nurse, Derek; Hinnebusch, Thomas J.; Philipson, Gérard (1993). . Univ of California Press. ISBN 9780520097759.
- . Memorial University of Newfoundland.[permanent dead link]