Kitara language
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Kitara | |
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Runyakitara | |
Created by | Uganda |
Date | early 1990s |
Users | Written language taught at university. 5 million speakers of the source languages (2002)[1] |
Purpose | |
Sources | Kiga, Nkore, Nyoro, & Tooro |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | None |
JE.10A [2] |
The Kitara language, commonly known as Runyakitara, is an artificial[2] standard language based on four closely related languages of western Uganda:
- Nyoro or Runyoro
- Kiga (Chiga) or Rukiga
- Nkore or Runyankole
- Tooro or Rutooro
The Google interface has been translated into Kitara in February 2010 by the Faculty of Computing and IT, Makerere University.
See also
- Nkore-Kiga
- Ngangela language
References
- ↑ Lewis, M. Paul, ed (2015). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (18th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. https://www.ethnologue.com/18/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- Bernsten, Jan. 1998. "Runyakitara: Uganda's 'New' Language." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 19(2): 93-107. (online version)
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