Alternate Names: Asian Swahili
Dialects: None known. May be intelligible with standard Kiswahili ,. Cutchi-Swahili and Asian Swahili may not be the same.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 45,000 (Maho and Sands 2002).
Language Use: L1 of some Gujarati Muslims who came from Zanzibar. Asian Swahili is used by other Asians to communicate with non-English speaking Africans and other Asians who share no common language. All ages. Also use English [eng].
Nation of Origin: Tanzania
Other Comments: Regular but distinct phonology, lexical and grammatical differences (Whiteley 1974:73–79). Muslim (Ismaili), Muslim (Ithnasheri).