Rutooro

E695725

Rutooro is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Tooro people in western Uganda.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Rutooro canonical 3
Nkore 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (35)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
natural language
alternativeName Orutooro NERFINISHED
Rutooro language
Tooro NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Rukiga NERFINISHED
Runyankore NERFINISHED
Runyoro NERFINISHED
country Uganda
ethnicGroup Tooro people NERFINISHED
family Bantu NERFINISHED
hasAutonym Orutooro NERFINISHED
hasBasicWordOrder SVO
hasDialects varieties associated with different Tooro subregions
hasGlottocode toor1243
hasISO639-3Code ttj
hasLinguisticFeature agglutinative morphology
noun class system
tone
languageBranch Narrow Bantu
languageGroup Nyoro-Tooro languages NERFINISHED
macrolanguageGrouping Runyakitara NERFINISHED
region Tooro Kingdom NERFINISHED
spokenIn Uganda NERFINISHED
spokenInRegion Western Uganda NERFINISHED
standardizedIn Uganda NERFINISHED
subfamily Great Lakes Bantu languages NERFINISHED
Niger–Congo languages NERFINISHED
usedBy Tooro Kingdom administration NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication among Tooro people
oral literature
traditional ceremonies
usedIn local education in Tooro region
local media in Tooro region
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bantu E languages hasMember Rutooro
Runyankole hasAlternativeName Rutooro
this entity surface form: Nkore
Runyankole closelyRelatedTo Rutooro