Runyakitara language
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Short description: Artificial standard language
| Kitara | |
|---|---|
| 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] | |
Runyakitara[3] is a standardized language based on four closely related languages of western Uganda:
- Nyoro or Runyoro
- Kiga (Chiga) or Rukiga
- Nkore or Runyankole
- Tooro or Rutooro
Jouni Filip Maho's 2009 New Updated Guthrie List Online calls it an artificial language,[2] while Ethnologue 23 calls it "standardized" and "hybrid".[4]
The Google interface has been translated into Kitara in February 2010 by the Faculty of Computing and IT, Makerere University. It is also used in the Orumuri newspaper, published by New Vision Group.[5]
See also
- Nkore-Kiga
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 (1998-03-01). "Runyakitara: Uganda's 'New' Language". Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 19 (2): 93–107. doi:10.1080/01434639808666345. ISSN 0143-4632.
- ↑ Nyankore at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020)
- ↑ "Orumuri (@Orumuri) | Twitter" (in en). https://twitter.com/orumuri.
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