Where Ngazidja Comorian is spoken
Ngazidja Comorian is spoken in one country: the Comoros. The table gives the share of each country’s people who speak it, from Unicode CLDR, where CLDR has a figure.
| Country | Share of population | Estimated speakers |
|---|---|---|
| Comoros | 37% | 333,052 |
Estimated speakers are the CLDR percentage applied to CLDR’s own population figure for the country, so they are rough. A country without a figure may still have speakers: it is listed because the language area, or Glottolog’s record, reaches it.
On the map, Ngazidja Comorian is drawn as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18613195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Ngazidja Comorian.
How many people speak Ngazidja Comorian?
Wikidata gives about 312,000 speakers (Wikidata, with no source given). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.
Status: Not endangered. Glottolog lists it as not endangered: it is still being passed on to children.
Where Ngazidja Comorian sits in the language family tree
Glottolog classifies Ngazidja Comorian as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.
- 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
- Comorian Bantu
- Ngazidja Comorian
Related languages
Other languages in the Comorian Bantu group:
- Mwali Comorian (29,000 speakers)
More about Ngazidja Comorian
Codes: ISO 639-3 zdj, Glottolog ngaz1238. Glottolog macroarea: Africa.
Questions about Ngazidja Comorian
Where is Ngazidja Comorian spoken?
Ngazidja Comorian is spoken in the Comoros. Unicode CLDR puts it at 37% of the population of Comoros, which is about 333,052 people. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.
How many people speak Ngazidja Comorian?
Wikidata gives about 312,000 speakers (Wikidata, with no source given). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.
Which language family is Ngazidja Comorian in?
Glottolog places Ngazidja Comorian in the Atlantic-Congo family, in the branch Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern Bantoid, Narrow Bantu, East Bantu, Northeast Savanna Bantu, Northeast Coastal Bantu, Coastal NEC Bantu, Mijikenda-Pokomo-Comorian and Comorian Bantu.