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.^[2][3] Maho (2009) considers it a distinct dialect. Nurse & Hinnebusch classify it as a northern dialect of Swahili.^{[4][page needed]}

Bajuni
Kibajuni
Native to	Kenya, Somalia
Ethnicity	Bajuni
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Coast Bantu Sabaki Swahili Bajuni
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	baju1245
Guthrie code	G.41[1]

Consonant Inventory

The consonant inventory is as follows.^[5]

		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.^[6]

See also

• Bajuni people