Kuria language
For other uses, see Kuria (disambiguation).
| Kuria | |
|---|---|
| Igikuria | |
| Native to | Kenya, Tanzania[1] |
Native speakers | 690,000 (2005–2009)[2] |
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Niger–Congo
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| Dialects |
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| Latin, Arabic | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
kuj |
| Glottolog |
kuri1259[3] |
JE.43,431–434[4] | |
Kuria is spoken by the Kuria peoples of Northern Tanzania, with some speakers also residing in Kenya.
Maho (2009) treats the Simbiti, Hacha, Surwa, and Sweta varieties as distinct languages.
Bibliography
- Jelle Cammenga, Igikuria phonology and morphology : a Bantu language of South-West Kenya and North-West Tanzania, Köppe, Köln, 2004, 351 p. ISBN 3896450298 (revised text of a thesis)
- S. M. Muniko, B. Muita oMagige and M. J. Ruel (ed.), Kuria-English dictionary, LIT, Hambourg, 1996, 137 p. ISBN 3825829510
- W. H. Whiteley, The structure of the Kuria verbal and its position in the sentence, University of London, 1955, 161 p. (thesis)
- Phebe Yoder, Tata na Baba = Father and Mother : a first Kuria reader, Musoma Press, Musoma, Tanganyika, 1949, 44 p.
References
- ↑ Ethnologue entry for Kuria
- ↑ Kuria at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kuria". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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