lingvo.wikisort.org - Language

Search / Calendar

Kiga (also called Rukiga, Ruchiga, or Chiga) is a Great Lakes Bantu language of the Kiga people (Bakiga). Kiga is a similar and partially mutually intelligible with the Nkore language. It was first written in the second half of the 19th century. Kiga is largely spoken in the ancient Kigezi region which includes about 5 districts, namely Rubanda, Rukiga, Kabale, Kanungu and some parts of Rukungiri. As of 2021, Kiga is spoken natively by about 1.3 million people in Uganda.

Kiga
Chiga
Orukiga
Native toUganda, Rwanda
EthnicityBakiga, Twa
Native speakers
1.6 million (2002 census)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
Standard forms
Language codes
ISO 639-3cgg
Glottologchig1238
JE.14[2]
This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.
A Kiga speaker, recorded in Uganda.

Kiga is so similar to Nkore (84%–94% lexical similarity[3]) that some argue they are dialects of the same language, called Nkore-Kiga by Charles Taylor.[4]


Phonology


Front Central Back
Close i u
Mid ɛ o
Open a
Consonants
Labial Alveolar Post-alv./
Palatal
Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Plosive/
Affricate
voiceless p t t͡ʃ k
voiced b d d͡ʒ g
Fricative voiceless f s ʃ h
voiced v z ʒ
Trill r
Approximant j w

Orthography


D and P are only used in foreign names and loanwords.

G and K are palatalised before I.


Grammar


In common with other Bantu languages, Kiga has a noun class system in which prefixes on nouns mark membership of one of the noun genders. Pronouns, adjectives, and verbs reflect the noun gender of the nominal they refer to. Some examples of noun classes:

The sound [l] is not distinctive in Rukiga. The letter "r" is used instead.


See also



References


  1. Kiga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  3. Lewis, Paul M., ed. (2009). "Ethnologue Report for Language Code: nyn". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. Dallas, TX: SIL International. Retrieved 9 December 2009.
  4. Poletto, Robert E. (1998). Topics in Runyankore Phonology (PDF). Linguistics Graduate Program, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Retrieved Dec 8, 2009.[permanent dead link]
  5. Taylor, Charles (1985). Nkore-Kiga. London: Croom Helm.
  6. "Kiga language". Omniglot. Retrieved 19 February 2021.



На других языках


- [en] Kiga language

[fr] Kiga (langue)

Le kiga, aussi appelé rukiga ou chiga, est une langue bantoue parlée par la population kiga en Ouganda. Depuis les années 1990, le gouvernement ougandais promeut le kitara, une langue basée sur le kiga et d’autres langues proches (nyoro, nkore, toro).



Текст в блоке "Читать" взят с сайта "Википедия" и доступен по лицензии Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike; в отдельных случаях могут действовать дополнительные условия.

Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.

2019-2025
WikiSort.org - проект по пересортировке и дополнению контента Википедии