Bravanese dialect

Bravanese
Mwiini
Chimwiini
Native to	Somalia
Native speakers	180,000 all Swahili in Somalia (2006)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Coast Bantu Sabaki Swahili Bravanese
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(included in swh)
Glottolog	mwin1241[2]
Guthrie code	G.412[3]

Bravanese, also called Chimwiini (ChiMwini, Mwiini, Mwini) or Chimbalazi^[4]) is a variety of Swahili spoken by the Bravanese people, who are the predominant inhabitants of Barawa, or Brava, in Somalia.^[5] Maho (2009) considers it a distinct language.

See also

• Bravanese people

Notes

1. Ethnologue report for Somalia
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mwini". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
4. I. M. Lewis, Islam in tropical Africa, Volume 1964, (International African Institute in association with Indiana University Press: 1980), p.7.
5. Abdullahi, p.11.

References

• Abdullahi, Mohamed Diriye (2001). Culture and customs of Somalia. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-31333-2.