Kuria is a

Bantu language The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu people of Central, Southern, Eastern africa and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages. The t ...

spoken by the

Kuria people The Kuria people (also known as the AbaKurya, are a Bantu community in Tanzania and Kenya. Their homeland is bounded on the east by the Migori River and on the west by the Mara River estuary. Traditionally a pastoral and farming community, the ...

of Northern Tanzania, with some speakers also residing in Kenya. Maho (2009) treats the Simbiti, Hacha, Surwa, and Sweta varieties as distinct languages.

Alphabet

Phonology

Consonants

Vowels

All vowels contrast length, and can be either short or long.

Bibliography

* Jelle Cammenga, ''Igikuria phonology and morphology : a Bantu language of South-West Kenya and North-West Tanzania'', Köppe, Köln, 2004, 351 p. (revised text of a thesis) * S. M. Muniko, B. Muita oMagige and M. J. Ruel (ed.), ''Kuria-English dictionary'', LIT, Hambourg, 1996, 137 p. * W. H. Whiteley, ''The structure of the Kuria verbal and its position in the sentence'', University of London, 1955, 161 p. (thesis) * Phebe Yoder, ''Tata na Baba = Father and Mother : a first Kuria reader'', Musoma Press, Musoma, Tanganyika, 1949, 44 p.

References

{{Narrow Bantu languages, J-M Languages of Tanzania Languages of Kenya Great Lakes Bantu languages