Atlantic-Congo · East Africa

Ilwana

Shifting

Nothing more than a wordlist has ever been published about Ilwana. What it sounds like, how it works, and what it carries are all undocumented.

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FamilyAtlantic-Congo
StatusShifting
DocumentationWordlist or less
ISO 639-3mlk
Glottocodeilwa1237

Spoken in Kenya

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Closest relatives

Languages sharing the deepest branch of Atlantic-Congo's family tree with Ilwana.

  1. Chimwiini

    Shifting
    Grammar sketch

  2. Congo Swahili

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  3. Cutchi-Swahili

    Threatened
    Grammar sketch

  4. Mwani

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

  5. Swahili

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  6. Chonyi-Dzihana-Kauma

    Not endangered
    Phonology, text or dictionary

  7. Digo

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  8. Duruma

    Not endangered
    Phonology, text or dictionary

Reference data for Ilwana from Glottolog 5.2.1, licensed CC-BY-4.0. Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2025. Glottolog 5.2.1. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at https://glottolog.org)