Atlantic-Congo · ISO 639-3 wni
Ndzwani Comorian Language shikomori
Ndzwani Comorian is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken by about 290,000 people in 1 country. It is an official language of Comoros. It is written in the Perso-Arabic and Latin scripts.
Where Ndzwani Comorian is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Ndzwani Comorian
Language family
- Atlantic-Congo
- Volta-Congo
- Benue-Congo
- Bantoid
- Southern Bantoid
- Narrow Bantu
- East Bantu
- Northeast Savanna Bantu
- Northeast Coastal Bantu
- Coastal NEC Bantu
- Mijikenda-Pokomo-Comorian
- Comorian Bantu
- Shindzwani-Shimaore
- Ndzwani Comorian
Writing system
Perso-Arabic and Latin scripts
Related languages
About the Ndzwani Comorian language
Ndzwani Comorian (shikomori) is spoken by about 290,000 people, which makes it the 515th most spoken language in the world — just behind Tuvinian (297,000) and ahead of Bislama (270,000). It belongs to the Atlantic-Congo language family and, more precisely, to the Shindzwani-Shimaore group within the Benue-Congo branch.
Where is Ndzwani Comorian spoken?
Ndzwani Comorian is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Comoros (306,047).
Ndzwani Comorian is an official language in 1 country: Comoros.
Writing system and status
Ndzwani Comorian is written in the Perso-Arabic and Latin scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Ngazidja Comorian, Segeju, Giryama, Swahili, Congo Swahili, Gogo and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 wni.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.