Runyakitara language
(Redirected from Kitara language)
| Kitara | |
|---|---|
| Orunyakitara | |
| Created by | Uganda |
| Date | early 1990s |
| Users | Written language taught at university. 3 million speakers of the source languages (2002)[1] |
| Purpose | |
| Sources | Kiga, Nkore, Nyoro, & Tooro |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | qru (private use)[2] |
| Glottolog | None |
JE.10A[3] | |
| ELP | Lua error in Module:Endangered_Languages_Project at line 21: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| IETF | art-x-runyakit (private use)[2] |
Runyakitara[4] is a standardized language based on four closely related languages of western Uganda:
Jouni Filip Maho's 2009 New Updated Guthrie List Online calls it an artificial language,[3] while Ethnologue calls it "standardized" and "hybrid".[1]
The Google interface was 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
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Nyankore at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ a b Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Relevant Literature
[edit | edit source]- Tumusiime, James. 2007. Entanda y'omugambi w'Orunyankore-Rukiga. Kampala, Uganda: Fountain Publishers. [a collection of proverbs, entire book is written in the language, with no English]
External links
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