Runyakitara is a
standardized language based on four closely related languages of western
Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa
East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territor ...
:
*
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
Artificial languages are languages of a typically very limited size which emerge either in computer simulations between artificial agents, robot interactions or controlled psychological experiments with humans. They are different from both constr ...
,
while
Ethnologue
''Ethnologue: Languages of the World'' (stylized as ''Ethnoloɠue'') is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world. It is the world's most comprehensiv ...
23 calls it "standardized" and "hybrid".
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
The Vision Group of Companies, commonly known as the Vision Group, is a multimedia conglomerate in Uganda. It publishes the New Vision (newspaper), an English-language daily newspaper, that appears in print form and online, as well as newspa ...
.
See also
*
Nyoro-
Tooro
*
Nkore-Kiga
Nkore-Kiga is a language spoken by around 5,800,000 people living in the
extreme southwest of Uganda. It is often defined as two separate languages: Nkore and Kiga.
It is closely related to Runyoro-Rutooro.
History
Archibald Norman Tucker w ...
*
Rutara languages
The Rutara or Runyakitara languages (endonym: ''Orutara'', ''Orunyakitara'') are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken in the African Great Lakes region. They include languages such as Runyoro, Runyankore and Ruhaya. The language gr ...
References
Relevant Literature
*
Tumusiime, James. 2007. ''Entanda y'omugambi w'Orunyankore-Rukiga.'' Kampala, Uganda: Fountain Publishers.
collection of proverbs, entire book is written in the language, with no English
External links
PanAfrican L10n page on Runyakitara
Languages of Uganda
*
Constructed languages introduced in the 1990s
Zonal constructed languages
{{Bantu-lang-stub