Atlantic-Congo · ISO 639-3 seg
Segeju Language
Segeju is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken by about 2.6 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Segeju is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Segeju
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
- Mijikenda
- Southern Mijikenda
- Segeju
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Segeju language
Segeju is spoken by about 2.6 million people, which makes it the 274th most spoken language in the world — just behind Sasak (2.6 million) and ahead of Chadian Arabic (2.6 million). It belongs to the Atlantic-Congo language family and, more precisely, to the Southern Mijikenda group within the Benue-Congo branch.
Where is Segeju spoken?
Segeju is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Tanzania (2.6 million).
Segeju is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Segeju is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as vulnerable, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Giryama, Ngazidja Comorian, Ndzwani Comorian, Swahili, Congo Swahili, Gogo and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 seg.
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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.