Chimwiini

E512925

Chimwiini is a Bantu language of the Sabaki subgroup spoken primarily along the southern Somali coast, closely related to Swahili.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Shimwali 3
Chimwiini canonical 2
Kiswahili cha Kimvita 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
Sabaki language
alternativeName Bravanese
Bravanese Swahili
linked to: Swahili language

Chimiini
Mwiini
closelyRelatedTo Kiswahili
linked to: Swahili language

Swahili
linked to: Swahili language
country Somalia
endangeredStatus endangered language
threatened
glottocode chim1300
hasConsonantInventory includes prenasalized stops
hasDialect Brava variety
hasLinguisticFeature agreement with noun classes
complex tense–aspect–mood system
noun class system
phonemic vowel length
rich verbal morphology
tone or pitch accent
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasVowelInventory five-vowel system
hasWordOrder SVO
ISO639-3Code cwb
isVarietyOf Swahili macrolanguage (broad sense)
linked to: Swahili language
languageFamily Bantu
linked to: Bantu languages

Niger–Congo
namedAfter Brava
region southern Somalia
sharesLexiconWith Standard Swahili
linked to: Swahili language

other Sabaki languages
spokenAlong southern Somali coast
spokenIn Baraawe
Brava
Somalia
standardLanguageOf Bravanese community
subgroupOf Bantu languages
Northeast Coast Bantu languages
Sabaki subgroup
usedAs community language
usedBy Bravanese people
usedIn daily communication
oral tradition
religious contexts
writingSystem Arabic script
linked to: Arabic alphabet

Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kimvita dialect hasAlternativeName Kiswahili cha Kimvita
linked to: Chimwiini
Shikomori hasDialect Shimwali
linked to: Chimwiini
Southwest Indian Ocean linguistic area hasLanguage Shimwali
linked to: Chimwiini
Baraawe area language Chimwiini
Comorian hasDialect Shimwali
subject linked to: Comorian (Shikomori)
linked to: Chimwiini