Kuria language
Kuria is spoken by the Kuria peoples of Northern Tanzania, with some speakers also residing in Kenya.
Kuria | |
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Igikuria | |
Native to | Kenya, Tanzania[1] |
Native speakers | 690,000 (2005–2009)[2] |
Dialects |
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Latin, Arabic | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kuj |
Glottolog | kuri1259 [3] |
JE.43,431–434 [4] |
Maho (2009) treats the Simbiti, Hacha, Surwa, and Sweta varieties as distinct languages.
Kuria alphabet (Kenya)[5][6][7] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Uppercase | A | B | Ch | E | Ë | G | H | I | K | M | N | Nd | Ny | Ng' | O | Ö | R | Rr | S | T | U | W | Y | ||||
Lowercase | a | b | ch | e | ë | g | h | i | k | m | n | nd | ny | ng' | o | ö | r | rr | s | t | u | w | y | ||||
IPA Symbol | a | β | t͡ʃ | e | ɛ | ɣ | h | i | k | m | n | n͡d | ɲ | ŋ | o | ɔ | ɾ | r | s | t | u | w | j |
Phonology
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
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Stop | t | k | |||
Fricative | β | s | ɣ | h | |
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
Trill | r | ||||
Flap | ɾ | ||||
Glide | j | ||||
Prenasalized Stops | m͡b | n͡d | ŋ͡g | ||
Affricates | t͡ʃ |
Advanced Tongue Root (+ATR) | -ATR | |||||
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Front | Central | Back | Front | Central | Back | |
Close | i | u | ||||
Close-Mid | e | o | ||||
Close-Mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
Open | a |
All vowels contrast length, and can be either short or long.
Bibliography
- Jelle Cammenga, Igikuria phonology and morphology : a Bantu language of South-West Kenya and North-West Tanzania, Köppe, Köln, 2004, 351 p. ISBN 3896450298 (revised text of a thesis)
- S. M. Muniko, B. Muita oMagige and M. J. Ruel (ed.), Kuria-English dictionary, LIT, Hambourg, 1996, 137 p. ISBN 3825829510
- W. H. Whiteley, The structure of the Kuria verbal and its position in the sentence, University of London, 1955, 161 p. (thesis)
- Phebe Yoder, Tata na Baba = Father and Mother : a first Kuria reader, Musoma Press, Musoma, Tanganyika, 1949, 44 p.
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References
- Ethnologue entry for Kuria
- Kuria at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kuria". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- Rhonda L. Hartell, ed. 1993. The Alphabets of Africa. Dakar: UNESCO and Summer Institute of Linguistics
- Nyauma, Shem (2014). "A Phonological Reconstruction Of Ekegusii And Egekuria Nouns: A Comparative Analysis" (PDF). Masters Thesis, University of Nairobi.
- Hartell, Rhonda, ed. (1993). Alphabets of Africa. https://archive.org/details/rosettaproject_kuj_ortho-1: UNESCO Regional Office in Dakar (BREDA). p. 186. ISBN 92-9091-020-3.CS1 maint: location (link) CS1 maint: ignored ISBN errors (link)
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