Kisukuma language

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Kisukuma is a major Bantu language spoken primarily by the Sukuma people in northwestern Tanzania.

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Label Occurrences
Kisukuma language canonical 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
Sukuma language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Kinyamwezi NERFINISHED
Nyamwezi language NERFINISHED
country Tanzania
ethnicGroup Sukuma people NERFINISHED
glottocode suku1259
hasAlternativeName Kisukuma NERFINISHED
Sukuma NERFINISHED
Sukuma language NERFINISHED
hasApproximateNumberOfSpeakers millions
hasBasicWordOrder SVO
hasDialect Bujashi NERFINISHED
Gwe
Ikinyamwezi (closely related)
Kanda NERFINISHED
Ngoreme NERFINISHED
Nyamamba NERFINISHED
Simba NERFINISHED
hasEthnologueEntry yes
hasFeature agglutinativeMorphology
nounClassSystem
toneLanguage
hasGuthrieCode F.21
F.22
F.23
F.24
hasLinguasphereCode 99-AUS-m
isMajorLanguageOf northwestern Tanzania
iso639-3Code suk
languageFamily Bantu languages
region Geita Region NERFINISHED
Mwanza Region NERFINISHED
Shinyanga Region NERFINISHED
Simiyu Region NERFINISHED
spokenBy Sukuma people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Tanzania NERFINISHED
northwestern Tanzania
subfamily Great Lakes Bantu languages NERFINISHED
Northeast Bantu languages NERFINISHED
usedAlongside English language NERFINISHED
Swahili language NERFINISHED
usedFor localAdministration
music
oralTradition
storytelling
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Narrow Bantu includes Kisukuma language