Sabaki languages

{{Short description|Bantu subfamily of the Swahili Coast, named for the Sabaki River}}

{{distinguish|Nyika language}}

{{Infobox language family

|name=Sabaki

|altname=Swahili–Nyika

|region=Swahili Coast

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Volta–Congo

|fam4=Benue–Congo

|fam5=Bantoid

|fam6=Southern Bantoid

|fam7=Bantu

|fam8=Northeast Bantu

|fam9=Northeast Coast Bantu

|protoname=Proto-Sabaki{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lGwnDwAAQBAJ&dq=proto+sabaki&pg=PA48|title=The Swahili: Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500|isbn=9781512821666|last1=Nurse|first1=Derek|last2=Spear|first2=Thomas|date=10 June 2017}}{{Cite book|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/290785|isbn=9780520097759|title=Swahili and Sabaki: A linguistic history|series=University of California publications in linguistics|year=1993|publisher=University of California Press}}

|glotto=coas1317

|glottorefname=Coastal NEC Bantu

}}

The Sabaki languages are the Bantu languages of the Swahili Coast, named for the Sabaki River. In addition to Swahili, Sabaki languages include Ilwana (Malakote) and Pokomo on the Tana River in Kenya, Mijikenda, spoken on the Kenyan coast; Comorian, in the Comoro Islands; and Mwani, spoken in northern Mozambique.Derek Nurse & Thomas J. Hinnebusch, 1993, Swahili and Sabaki: a linguistic history. 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.