Ngoreme language

Ngurimi
Dengurume
Native toTanzania
RegionMara Region
Native speakers
55,000 (2005)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3ngq
Glottologngur1263
JE.401[2]

Ngurimi (Ngoreme) is a Bantu language of Tanzania. Ngoreme is spoken in the Serengeti District of the Mara Region of north-west Tanzania by some 55,000 people.[3] There are two main dialects of Ngoreme - a northern dialect and a southern dialect - which maintain mutual intelligibility.

  1. ^ Ngurimi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  3. ^ Hill, Dustin, Anna-Lena Lindfors, Louise Nagler, Mark Woodward, and Richard Yalonde. 2007. A Sociolinguistic survey of the Bantu languages in Mara Region, Tanzania . Dar es Salaam: SIL International.