Pokomo language
Encyclopedia
Pokomo is a Bantu
language spoken primarily along the East African
coast near Tana River
in the Tana River District
by the Pokomo
people of Kenya
. All adult speakers of Pokomo are bilingual in Swahili
, East Africa's lingua franca
.
There is high of lexical similarity between other languages like Mvita (63%), Amu
(61%), Mrima (60%), Kigiryama (59%), Chidigo (58%) or Bajun (57%).
Bantu languages
The Bantu languages constitute a traditional sub-branch of the Niger–Congo languages. There are about 250 Bantu languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility, though the distinction between language and dialect is often unclear, and Ethnologue counts 535 languages...
language spoken primarily along the East African
East African
East African may refer to:*Any person or object of, or pertaining to, East Africa*East African Airlines, an airline based in Kampala, Uganda*East African Safari Air, a now defunct airline based in Kenya*The EastAfrican, a weekly newspaper in East Africa...
coast near Tana River
Tana River
*Tana River *Tana River *Tana River District, Kenya*Tana River + Finland...
in the Tana River District
Tana River District
Tana River District is a district of Coast Province, Kenya. It is named after the Tana River itself. It has an area of and a population of 180,901 according to the 1999 census. The district capital is Hola ....
by the Pokomo
Pokomo
The Pokomo are an ethnic group of Kenya, who are predominantly agriculturalists living along the Tana River in the Tana River District. They speak Pokomo language.The Pokomo mostly live along the River Tana where they grow their crops....
people of Kenya
Kenya
Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
. All adult speakers of Pokomo are bilingual in Swahili
Swahili language
Swahili or Kiswahili is a Bantu language spoken by various ethnic groups that inhabit several large stretches of the Mozambique Channel coastline from northern Kenya to northern Mozambique, including the Comoro Islands. It is also spoken by ethnic minority groups in Somalia...
, East Africa's lingua franca
Lingua franca
A lingua franca is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a mother tongue, in particular when it is a third language, distinct from both mother tongues.-Characteristics:"Lingua franca" is a functionally defined term, independent of the linguistic...
.
There is high of lexical similarity between other languages like Mvita (63%), Amu
AMU
As an abbreviation, AMU may refer to:* Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland* African Mathematical Union* Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India* American Military University, Charles Town, West Virginia* Arab Maghreb Union...
(61%), Mrima (60%), Kigiryama (59%), Chidigo (58%) or Bajun (57%).