| Bajuni | |
| Nativename: | Kibajuni |
| States: | Kenya, Somalia |
| Ethnicity: | Bajuni |
| Speakers: | ? |
| Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
| Fam2: | AtlanticāCongo |
| Fam3: | BenueāCongo |
| Fam4: | Bantoid |
| Fam5: | Bantu |
| Fam6: | Northeast Coast Bantu |
| Fam7: | Sabaki |
| Fam8: | Swahili |
| Isoexception: | dialect |
| Glotto: | baju1245 |
| Glottorefname: | Bajuni |
| Guthrie: | G.41 |
Bajuni (Kibajuni), also known as Tikulu (Tikuu), is a Bantu language related to Swahili spoken by the Bajuni people who inhabit the tiny Bajuni Islands and coastal Kenya, in addition to parts of southern Somalia, where they constitute a minority ethnic group. Maho (2009) considers it a distinct dialect. Nurse & Hinnebusch classify it as a northern dialect of Swahili.
The consonant inventory is as follows.
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | prenasalized | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| implosives | (pronounced as /link/) | (pronounced as /link/) | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| voiceless unaspirated | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| voiceless aspirated | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Fricative | voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | (pronounced as /link/) | ||||
| voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | (pronounced as /link/) | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | (pronounced as /link/) | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/, (pronounced as /link/) | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ (pronounced as /link/) | |||||
| Nasals | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
