| Kitara | |
|---|---|
| Orunyakitara | |
| Created by | Uganda |
| Date | early 1990s |
| Users | Written language taught at university. 3 million speakers of the source languages (2002) |
| Purpose | standard language |
| Sources | Kiga, Nkore, Nyoro, & Tooro |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | qru (private use) |
| Glottolog | None |
| Guthrie code | JE.10A |
| IETF | art-x-runyakit (private use) |
Runyakitara 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, while Ethnologue calls it "standardized" and "hybrid".
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.
See also
References
- ^ Nyankore at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ "ConLang Code Registry". www.kreativekorp.com. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- 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.
- "Orumuri (@Orumuri) | Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 2020-05-06.
Relevant Literature
- Tumusiime, James. 2007. Entanda y'omugambi w'Orunyankore-Rukiga. Kampala, Uganda: Fountain Publishers.
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