Mombasa and Kwale districts in Kenya; Muheza and Tanga districts in Tanzania
Ethnicity
Digo people
Native speakers
580,000 (2009–2019)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
Atlantic–Congo
Volta–Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Bantu
Northeast Coast Bantu
Sabaki
Mijikenda
Digo
Language codes
ISO 639-3
dig
Glottolog
digo1243
Guthrie code
E.73[2]
Digo (Chidigo) is a Bantu language spoken primarily along the East African coast between Mombasa and Tanga by the Digo people of Kenya and Tanzania. The ethnic Digo population has been estimated at around 360,000 (Mwalonya et al. 2004), the majority of whom are presumably speakers of the language. All adult speakers of Digo are bilingual in Swahili, East Africa's lingua franca. The two languages are closely related, and Digo also has much vocabulary borrowed from neighbouring Swahili dialects.
^Digo at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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