Nyankole

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English[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Nyankole

The Bantu lect spoken by more than two million members of the Nkore (Banyankore) and Hema (Hima) peoples of southwestern Uganda, closely related to the Kiga language and sometimes considered with Kiga to be a dialect of Nkore-Kiga, or (with Kiga, Nyoro and Tooro) a dialect of Kitara.

Synonyms[edit]

Nkore, Runyankole, Runyankore

Translations[edit]

lect

French: runyankole m
German: Runyankore (de) n

Further reading[edit]

ISO 639-3 code nyn (SIL)
Ethnologue entry for Nyankole, nyn ⁠

Anagrams[edit]

nonleaky

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