Tooro language
Tooro | |
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Rutooro | |
Native to | Uganda |
Native speakers | (490,000 cited 1991 census)[1] |
Standard forms | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
ttj |
Glottolog |
toor1238 [2] |
JE.12 [3] |
Tooro, or Rutooro, is a Bantu language spoken mainly by the Tooro people (Batooro) from the Toro Kingdom region of western Uganda. There are three main areas where Rutooro as a language is mainly used and they are Kabarole District, Kyenjojo District and Kyegegwa District.
See also
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
References
- ↑ Tooro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tooro". 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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