Sukuma is a Bantu language of Tanzania, spoken in an area southeast of Lake Victoria between Mwanza, Shinyanga, and Lake Eyasi.[3]
Its orthography uses Roman script without special letters, which resembles that used for Swahili, and has been used for Bible translations[4] and in religious literature.[5]
Dialects (KɪmunaSukuma in the west, GɪmunaNtuzu/GɪnaNtuzu in the northeast, and Jìnàkɪ̀ɪ̀yâ/JimunaKɪɪyâ in the southeast) are easily mutually intelligible.[6]
^Sukuma at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
^Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
^Margaret Arminel Bryan, compiler, The Bantu Languages of Africa, Oxford University Press, 1959.
^The Gospel in Many Tongues, The British and Foreign Bible Society, London, 1965.
^Kitabo sha Sala na sha Mimbo, Diochesi ya Mwanza, edited / approved by Bishop Renatus Butibubage, 1963.
^The prefixes kɪ-, gɪ-, ji- are dialectical variants.
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