Kisukuma

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

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Kisukuma canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
natural language
continent Africa
country Tanzania
ethnicGroup Sukuma NERFINISHED
glottocode suku1259
hasAlternativeName Kisukuma language NERFINISHED
Sukuma NERFINISHED
hasApproximateNumberOfSpeakers millions of speakers
hasDialects Eastern Sukuma NERFINISHED
Northern Sukuma NERFINISHED
Southern Sukuma
Western Sukuma NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
hasPhonologicalFeature noun class system
tone
hasWordOrder SVO
isMajorityLanguageOf Sukuma cultural area NERFINISHED
iso639-3Code suk
isTaughtIn primary schools (locally, in some areas)
languageBranch Niger–Congo NERFINISHED
languageFamily Bantu NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguages Kihaya NERFINISHED
Kikerewe NERFINISHED
Kinyamwezi NERFINISHED
Kinyiramba NERFINISHED
region Geita Region NERFINISHED
Mwanza Region NERFINISHED
Shinyanga Region NERFINISHED
Simiyu Region NERFINISHED
spokenBy Sukuma people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Tanzania NERFINISHED
northern Tanzania
subfamilyOf Great Lakes Bantu languages NERFINISHED
Northeast Bantu languages NERFINISHED
usedAlongside Swahili
usedFor daily communication
music and songs
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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