Kitara language

Kitara
Runyakitara
Spoken in	Uganda
Native speakers	–  (date missing)
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Great Lakes Bantu Nyoro–Ganda Kitara
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

The Kitara language, commonly known as Runyakitara, is a recent standardized form (dating to the early 1990s) of four linguistically closely related languages of western Uganda:

• Nyoro or Runyoro
• Kiga (Chiga) or Rukiga
• Nkore or Runyankole
• Tooro or Rutooro

It might be considered a koine of the abovementioned tongues.

See also

• Nkore-Kiga

The Google interface has been translated into Kitara in February 2010 by the Faculty of Computing and IT, Makerere University. This project was coordinated by Ms. Florence Tushabe together with a team of 15 others.

References

• Bernsten, Jan. 1998. "Runyakitara: Uganda's 'New' Language." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 19(2): 93-107. (online version)

External links

• PanAfrican L10n page on Runyakitara