Runyakitara language
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Artificial standard 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] | |
| 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 ]References
[edit ]- ^ a b Nyankore at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
- ^ a b "ConLang Code Registry". www.kreativekorp.com. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- ^ a b Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ^ Bernsten, Jan (1998年03月01日). "Runyakitara: Uganda's 'New' Language". Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 19 (2): 93–107. doi:10.1080/01434639808666345. ISSN 0143-4632.
- ^ "Orumuri (@Orumuri) | Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 2020年05月06日.
Relevant Literature
[edit ]- 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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