Rutooro

E695725

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

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Rutooro canonical 12
Nkore 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (35)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
natural language
alternativeName Orutooro
Rutooro language
Tooro
closelyRelatedTo Rukiga
Runyankore
linked to: Runyankole

Runyoro
country Uganda
ethnicGroup Tooro people
family Bantu
linked to: Bantu languages
hasAutonym Orutooro
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
macrolanguageGrouping Runyakitara
linked to: Rukiga language
region Tooro Kingdom
linked to: Kingdom of Tooro
spokenIn Uganda
spokenInRegion Western Uganda
standardizedIn Uganda
subfamily Great Lakes Bantu languages
Niger–Congo languages
usedBy Tooro Kingdom administration
usedFor daily communication among Tooro people
oral literature
traditional ceremonies
usedIn local education in Tooro region
local media in Tooro region
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (13)

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

Bantu E languages hasMember Rutooro
Runyankole hasAlternativeName Nkore
linked to: Rutooro
Runyankole closelyRelatedTo Rutooro
Bantu zone E hasLanguage Rutooro
Runyoro closelyRelatedTo Rutooro
Rukiga hasNeighborLanguage Rutooro
Toro officialLanguage Rutooro
Toro hasLanguageAdjective Rutooro
Chiga closelyRelatedTo Rutooro
Lukonzo neighboringLanguage Rutooro
Runyankole language closelyRelatedTo Rutooro
subject linked to: nyn