Английская Википедия:Bravanese dialect

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Bravanese, also called Chimwiini (ChiMwini, Mwiini, Mwini) or Chimbalazi,[1] is a Bantu language related to Swahili spoken by the Bravanese people, who are the predominant inhabitants of Barawa, or Brava, in Somalia.[2] Maho (2009) considers it a distinct dialect, and it has been classified as a Northern Dialect of Swahili.[3] However, it strongly distinguishes itself from standard Swahili under all linguistic considerations.[4]

Due to the ongoing Somali Civil War, most speakers have left the region and are scattered throughout the world in ex-refugee immigrant communities in places such as Columbus and Atlanta in the United States, London and Manchester in the United Kingdom, and Mombasa, Kenya. It has fewer than 15,000 speakers.[5]

Bravanese may have once served as a regional lingua franca due to the key coastal location of Barawa. One piece of linguistic evidence for this comes from morphological reduction. For example, it has a three-way tense system, which is simpler than that of neighboring Bantu dialects historically spoken in Somalia.[3]

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References

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Further reading

Шаблон:Languages of Somalia Шаблон:Narrow Bantu languages


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  1. I. M. Lewis, Islam in tropical Africa, Volume 1964, (International African Institute in association with Indiana University Press: 1980), p.7.
  2. Abdullahi, p.11.
  3. 3,0 3,1 Шаблон:Cite book
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  5. Шаблон:Cite web