Runyakitara language

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

Kitara
Orunyakitara
Created by	Uganda
Date	early 1990s
Users	Written language taught at university. 3 million speakers of the source languages (2002)[1]
Purpose	standard language
Sources	Kiga, Nkore, Nyoro, & Tooro
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
Guthrie code	JE.10A[2]

Jouni Filip Maho's 2009 New Updated Guthrie List Online calls it an artificial language,^[2] 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.^[4]

See also

• Nyoro-Tooro
• Nkore-Kiga
• Rutara languages

References

1. Nyankore at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
3. 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.
4. "Orumuri (@Orumuri) | Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 2020-05-06.

Relevant Literature

• 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

• PanAfrican L10n page on Runyakitara