it, the other major dialect alongside Kiunguja. It has an important classical corpus written in Arabic script from the 18st and 19st century. Kingare is the subdialect of the Mombasa area. Kimrima is spoken around Pangani, Vanga, Dar es Salaam, Rufiji and Mafia Island. Kiunguja is spoken in Zanzibar City and environs on Unguja (Zanzibar) Island. Kitumbatu (Pemba) dialects occupy the bulk of the island. Mambrui, Malindi Chichifundi, a dialect of the southern Kenya coast. Chwaka Kivumba, a dialect of the southern Kenya coast. Nosse Be (Madagascar) Pemba Swahili Kipemba is a local dialect of the Pemba Island. Kitumbatu and Kimakunduchi are the countryside dialects of the island of Zanzibar. Kimakunduchi is a recent renaming of "Kihadimu"; the old name means "serf" and so is considered pejorative. Makunduchi Mafia, Mbwera Kilwa (extinct) Kimgao used to be spoken around Kilwa District and to the south. Maho includes the various Comorian dialects as a third group. Most other authorities consider Comorian to be a Sabaki language, distinct from Swahili. Other regions In Somalia, where the Afroasiatic Somali language predominates, a variant of Swahili referred to as Chimwiini (also known as Chimbalazi) is spoken along the Benadir coast by the Bravanese people. Another Swahili dialect known as Kibajuni also serves as the mother tongue of the Bajuni minority ethnic group, which lives in the tiny Bajuni Islands as well as the southern Kismayo region. In Oman, there are an estimated people who speak Swahili as of 2020. Most are descendants of those repatriated after the fall of the Sultanate of Zanzibar. Pidgins and creoles There are Swahili-based slangs, pidgins and creoles: Swahili poets Shaaban bin Robert (1909-1962), Tanzanian poet, author, and essayist Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944-2020), Tanzanian novelist, poet, and scholar Mathias E. Mnyampala (1917-1969), Tanzanian writer, lawyer, and poet Tumi Molekane (b. 1981), South African rapper and poet Fadhy Mtanga (b. 1981), Tanzanian creative writer, photographer, graphic designer Christopher Mwashinga (b. 1965), Tanzanian author and poet Swahili sayings Two sayings with the same literal meaning of Where elephants fight, the grass is trampled or figuratively speaking, when those with power fight, it is those below them who suffer: See also Mandombe script Swahili literature UCLA Language Materials Project Languages of Africa References Sources Ashton, E. O. 1947. Swahili Grammar: Including intonation. Essex: Longman House. . Irele, Abiola and Biodun Jeyifo. 2010. The Oxford encyclopedia of African thought, Volume 1. New York, NY: Oxford