| Kuria | |
|---|---|
| Igikuria | |
| Native to | Kenya,Tanzania[1] |
| Ethnicity | Kuria people |
Native speakers | 690,000 (2005–2009)[2] |
| Dialects |
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| Latin,Arabic | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kuj |
| Glottolog | kuri1259 |
JE.43,431–434[3] | |
Kuria is aBantu language spoken by theKuria people of Northern Tanzania, with some speakers also residing in Kenya.
Maho (2009) treats the Simbiti, Hacha, Surwa, and Sweta varieties as distinct languages.
| Kuria alphabet (Kenya)[4][5][6] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Central | Back | Front | Central | Back | |
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Close-Mid | e | o | ||||
| Open-Mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
| Open | a | |||||
All vowels contrast length, and can be either short or long.
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