Comorian

Origin and localization

The Comorian ( shikomori in Comorian) indicates a spoken language in the archipelago of the the Comoros. It gathers dialects used in each of the four islands of the archipelago. This language belongs to the family of the Langues bantoues. Close relations of the Swahili, it also made a very great number of lexical loans to the Arab .

The linguistic distribution is the following one, according to the four islands of the archipelago of the Comoros:

Large Comore ( Ngazidja in Comorian): Shingazidja or Large-Comorian
Mohéli ( Mwali in Comorian): Shimwali or Mohélien
Anjouan ( Ndzuani in Comorian): Shindzuani or Anjouanais
Mayotte ( Maore in Comorian): Shimaore or Mahorais, also influenced by the Malagasy dialect : the Shibushi

The Comorian is written in Latin characters or Arab characters.

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