Tooro language

Tooro
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

Runyakitara language

References

  1. Tooro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tooro". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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