Comorian

Bantu language group of the Comoro Islands

Languagelanguage group natural language modern languageQ33077

Also known as Comorian language

Subclass of: Sabaki
Script: Latin script
, Arabic alphabet
Indigenous to: Comoros Islands

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Comorian is a group of four Bantu languages spoken in the Comoros Islands, an archipelago in the southwestern Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar. It is one of the official languages of the Union of the Comoros in the Comorian constitution. One of them, Shimaore, is spoken on the disputed island of Mayotte, a French department claimed by Comoros.

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Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object
agglutinative language
subject–object–verb
Native label: شیكهمهری
Country: Comoros

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