Runyakitara language

Runyakitara^[4] is a standardized language based on four closely related languages of western Uganda:

• Nyoro or Runyoro
• Kiga (Chiga) or Rukiga
• Nkore or Runyankole
• Tooro or Rutooro

Kitara
Orunyakitara
Created by	Uganda
Date	early 1990s
Users	Written language taught at university. 3 million speakers of the source languages (2002)[1]
Purpose	standard language
Sources	Kiga, Nkore, Nyoro, & Tooro
Language codes
ISO 639-3	qru (private use)[2]
Glottolog	None
Guthrie code	JE.10A[3]
IETF	art-x-runyakit (private use)[2]

Jouni Filip Maho's 2009 New Updated Guthrie List Online calls it an artificial language,^[3] while Ethnologue calls it "standardized" and "hybrid".^[1]

The Google interface was translated into Kitara in February 2010 by the Faculty of Computing and IT, Makerere University. It is also used in the Orumuri newspaper, published by New Vision Group.^[5]

See also

• Nyoro-Tooro
• Nkore-Kiga
• Rutara languages