Native to Tanzania, Kenya Language family Swahili-based creole Glottolog cutc1238 | Native speakers 45,000 (2002) ISO 639-3 ccl | |
Region Zanzibar, larger cities | ||
Kutchi-Swahili is a Swahili-based creole spoken among the Asian (Indian) population of East Africa. It is the native language of some Gujarati families from Zanzibar that have settled in the larger cities of Tanganyika and Kenya, and is used as a second language by others of the Asian community. It is derived from the Kutchi language of the Kutch region in Gujarat.
Maho (2009) assigns different codes to Kutchi-Swahili and Asian Swahili (Kibabu), and Ethnologue also notes that these may not be the same.
References
Cutchi-Swahili Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA