Nkore-Kiga language
Nkore-Kiga | |
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Native to | Uganda |
Native speakers | 5.8 million (2014 census)[1] |
Early form | Proto-Nkore–Kiga
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Standard forms | |
Dialects | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:nyn – Nkorecgg – Kiga |
Glottolog | nkor1241 |
JE.13–14 [2] |
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.[3]
History
Archibald Tucker was the Linguistic Expert on Non-Arabic Languages for the government of Sudan and studied Bantu languages in Kenya and Uganda in the 1950s.[4] In 1955, he determined that Nkore and Kiga were dialect variants of the same language, and it was not long after that the Ugandan government made this new classification official.[5]
There potentially were some political reasons for this reclassification because it was at around the same time that the Ugandan government abolished the
Resources
The main resource for Nkore-Kiga is a book written by
See also
References
- ^ Nkore at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Kiga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ^ https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/nkor1241
- ^ (Coote 2006)
- ^ (Taylor 1985)