Benadiri Somali

Benaadir
Benadiri
Native to Somalia
Region Benadir coast
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog bena1268[1]

Benadiri Somali is a dialect of the Somali language. It is primarily spoken by the Benadiri people, who inhabit the southern Banaadir coast of Somalia.[2]

Overview

Benadiri Somali is also referred to as Coastal Somali or Af-Reer Xamar ("Language of the People of Hamar"). Blench (2006) structures the dialect into two general subdivisions:[3]

Notes

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Benaadir". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Benadiri Somali reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  3. Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 7/14/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.