Not to be confused with Iroquoian languages or Iraqi Arabic.
Iraqw
Kángw Iraqw
Native to
Tanzania
Region
Manyara, Arusha
Ethnicity
Iraqw
Native speakers
600,000 (2009)[1]
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Cushitic
South
Rift
West
NW Rift
Iraqwoid
Iraqw
Writing system
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
irk
Glottolog
iraq1241
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Two Iraqw speakers, recorded in Tanzania.
Iraqw (/ɪˈrɑːkuː/[2]) is a Cushitic language spoken in Tanzania in the Arusha and Manyara Regions. It is expanding in numbers as the Iraqw people absorb neighbouring ethnic groups.[clarification needed] The language has many Datooga loanwords, especially in poetic language. The Gorowa language, to the south, shares numerous similarities and is sometimes considered a dialect.
^Iraqw at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
^Tucker, A. N.; Bryan, M. A. (September 22, 2017). The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa: Handbook of African Languages Part 3. Routledge. ISBN 9781351600385 – via Google Books.
Iraqw (/ɪˈrɑːkuː/) is a Cushitic language spoken in Tanzania in the Arusha and Manyara Regions. It is expanding in numbers as the Iraqw people absorb...
The Iraqw People (/ɪˈrɑːkuː/) are a Cushitic ethnic group inhabiting the northern Tanzanian regions. They are believed to have originated from the southwestern...
Iraqw may refer to: Iraqw people Iraqwlanguage This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Iraqw. If an internal link led you here...
an expensive meal in most restaurants in urban areas. Traditionally, the Iraqw people in northern Tanzania have used S. nigrum (manakw) as vegetable for...
opposite strategy: here, the possessed noun is marked for construct case, e.g. Iraqw afé-r mar'i "doors" (lit. "mouths of houses"), where afee "mouth" is marked...
in urban areas view the language as less useful and may be reticent to speak it. Some use the exonym Mbulu (from a large Iraqw settlement) and say they...
(according to the Oxford English Dictionary) in storytelling in the English language and has started many narratives since 1600. These stories sometimes end...
a language isolate) Sandawe (possibly a language isolate) Afro-Asiatic Cushitic Alagwa Burunge Gorowa Iraqw Semitic Arabic Indo-European Indo-Iranian...
uvular plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is pronounced like a voiceless velar plosive [k], except that the...
phonetic topics Mous, Maarten (1993). A grammar of Iraqw. Kuschitische Sprachstudien. Vol. 9. Hamburg: Buske. List of languages with [tɬʼ] on PHOIBLE...
The South Cushitic or Rift languages of Tanzania are a branch of the Cushitic languages. The most numerous is Iraqw, with half a million speakers. Scholars...
research into the use of the Kiswahili language as preferable language of instruction in Tanzania, and the Iraqwlanguage. She obtained her doctoral degree...
is broadly similar to the orthographies of neighboring languages such as Swahili, Isanzu, Iraqw, and Sandawe. The apostrophe, which is ubiquitous in transcription...
The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of...
/ɬaʊ̯/; Old Welsh ros /rɔs/ to Modern Welsh rhos /r̥ɔs/. In the Cushitic languageIraqw, *d has lenited to /r/ between vowels, but *r has undergone fortition...
link however reoccurs in Tanzania out of an ethnic community known as Iraqw. The Iraqw openly admit to be the masterminds behind the constructions and linked...
other Bantu languages, being bordered by the locally dominant Cushitic languageIraqw to the west, the Gorowa language (or dialect of Iraqw) to the south...
The Alagwa (Swahili: Waasi; Rangi: Vaasi; Iraqw: Alawa) are a Cushitic ethnic group mostly based in the Kondoa District (Alagwa: Ulàa) of the Dodoma Region...
Burungi there or nearby. Similar to Mbugu, the Iraqwlanguage spoken by the Burungi as a Southern Cushitic language. The tribe then divided into three sections...
These descriptions can describe Iraqw people and Datoga Kalenjin who used to live in association with each other, with Iraqw known for elaborate irrigation...
town, also known as Imboru among the Iraqw speakers, is the core of the Iraqw people, who speak a Cushitic language. Mbulu was founded by Germans in 1907...
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