Atlantic-Congo · ISO 639-3 zdj
Ngazidja Comorian Language شِكُمُرِ
Ngazidja Comorian is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken by about 312,000 people in 1 country. It is an official language of Comoros. It is written in the Latin and Perso-Arabic scripts.
Where Ngazidja Comorian is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Ngazidja 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
- Ngazidja Comorian
Writing system
Latin and Perso-Arabic scripts
Related languages
About the Ngazidja Comorian language
Ngazidja Comorian (شِكُمُرِ) is spoken by about 312,000 people, which makes it the 510th most spoken language in the world — just behind Ingush (322,900) and ahead of Karachay-Balkar (310,400). It belongs to the Atlantic-Congo language family and, more precisely, to the Comorian Bantu group within the Benue-Congo branch.
Where is Ngazidja Comorian spoken?
Ngazidja Comorian is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Comoros (333,052).
Ngazidja Comorian is an official language in 1 country: Comoros.
Writing system and status
Ngazidja Comorian is written in the Latin and Perso-Arabic 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 Ndzwani Comorian, Segeju, Giryama, Swahili, Congo Swahili, Gogo and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 zdj.
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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.