Highly endangered. Most speakers now living abroad in Europe and the United States.
Bibliography (Incomplete)
For Chimiini as an endangered language, see the Journal of the Anglo-Somali Society, 50, Autumn 2011, p. 18.
Batibo, H. 2005. Language Decline and Death in Africa: causes, consequences, and challenges. Multilingual Matters, Ltd.
Henderson, Brent. 2010. Chimwiini: Endangered status and syntactic distinctiveness. The Journal of West African Languages, 37.1:75-91.
Nurse, D., 1991. Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics: the case of Mwiini. In: Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Special Session on African Language Structures. pp. 177–187.
Nurse, D. 2009. The demise of Bantu in Somalia. In Floricic, F. (ed.), Essais de typologie et de linguistique générale. Mélanges offerts à Denis Creissels. Lyon: ENS Editions, 187-199.
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