Rutara languages
| Rutara | |
|---|---|
| Runyakitara Nyoroan | |
| Geographic distribution | Uganda, Tanzania, the DRC and Rwanda |
| Ethnicity | Rutara people |
| Linguistic classification | Niger–Congo? |
| Proto-language | Proto-Rutara[1] |
| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | ruta1242 |
The Rutara or Runyakitara languages (endonym: Orutara, Orunyakitara) are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken in the African Great Lakes region. They include languages such as Runyoro, Runyankore, Rukiga and Ruhaya. The language group takes its name from the Empire of Kitara.
Classification
David L. Schoenbrun classifies the Rutara languages as follows:[2][3]
Standardized language
History
According to glottochronological calculations, Proto-Rutara emerged in the year 500AD in the Kagera region of Tanzania near Bukoba. In 1200AD It split into multiple groups which were north Rutara (which spread northwards into Uganda and the DRC), South Rutara, Zinza and Kerewe.[4] [5][6][7]
References
- ^ Muzale, Henry R. T. (1998). "A Reconstruction of the Proto-Rutara Tense/Aspect System".
- ^ An Intellectual History of Power: Usable Pasts from the Great Lakes Region. p. 700.
- ^ https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/ruta1242
- ^ A Green Place, a Good Place: Agrarian Change, Gender, and Social Identity in the Great Lakes Region to the 15th Century. Boydell & Brewer, Limited. 1998. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-85255-681-8.
- ^ Stephens, Rhiannon (2 September 2013). A History of African Motherhood: The Case of Uganda, 700-1900. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107030800.
- ^ Elfasi, M.; Hrbek, Ivan (January 1988). Africa from the Seventh to the Eleventh Century. UNESCO. ISBN 9789231017094.
- ^ Schoenbrun, David L. (1993). "Cattle herds and banana gardens: The historical geography of the western Great Lakes region, ca AD 800?1500". The African Archaeological Review. 11–11: 39–72. doi:10.1007/BF01118142. S2CID 161913402.