Northeast Coast Bantu languages

The Northeast Coast Bantu languages are the Bantu languages spoken along the coast of Tanzania and Kenya, and including inland Tanzania as far as Dodoma.[1] In Guthrie's geographic classification, they fall within Bantu zones G and E.

Northeast Coast Bantu
Geographic
distribution
Tanzania, Kenya, Comoros and Somalia
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
Language codes
Glottolognort3209

The languages, or clusters, are:

The Ruvu languages are 60–70% similar lexically.

Mbugu (Ma'a) is a mixed language based largely on Pare.

Notes

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  1. ^ Derek Nurse & Thomas Spear, 1985, The Swahili