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| has gloss | eng: The Sabaki languages are the Bantu languages of the northern East African coast that include Swahili. The other languages are Ilwana (Malakote) and Pokomo on the Tana River in Kenya, and Mijikenda. Ethnologue considers Mijikenda to be five languages, and Swahili-Comorian to be eight. In Guthrie's geographic classification, Swahili is in Bantu zone G, whereas the other Sabaki languages are in zone E70, commonly under the name Nyika. |
| lexicalization | eng: Sabaki languages |
| lexicalization | eng: Sabaki language |
| subclass of | e/Northeast Coast Bantu langagues |
| subclass of | e/Northeast Coast Bantu |
| instance of | c/Northeast Bantu languages |
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| has subclass | language/pkb |
| has subclass | language/swa |
| has subclass | language/swc |
| has subclass | language/swh |
| has subclass | e/Mijikenda language |
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