| Sukuma | |
|---|---|
| Kɪsukuma/Kisukuma | |
| Region | Tanzania |
| Ethnicity | Sukuma |
Native speakers | 8.1 million (2016)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | suk |
| ISO 639-3 | suk |
| Glottolog | suku1261 |
F.21[2] | |
Sukuma is a Bantu language of Tanzania, spoken in an area southeast of Lake Victoria between Mwanza, Shinyanga, and Lake Eyasi.[3]
Its orthography uses Roman script without special letters, which resembles that used for Swahili, and has been used for Bible translations[4] and in religious literature.[5]
Dialects (KɪmunaSukuma in the west, GɪmunaNtuzu/GɪnaNtuzu in the northeast, and Jìnàkɪ̀ɪ̀yâ/JimunaKɪɪyâ in the southeast) are easily mutually intelligible.[6]
- ^ Sukuma at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ^ Margaret Arminel Bryan, compiler, The Bantu Languages of Africa, Oxford University Press, 1959.
- ^ The Gospel in Many Tongues, The British and Foreign Bible Society, London, 1965.
- ^ Kitabo sha Sala na sha Mimbo, Diochesi ya Mwanza, edited / approved by Bishop Renatus Butibubage, 1963.
- ^ The prefixes kɪ-, gɪ-, ji- are dialectical variants.
