Luguru language

Luguru
Ikiruguru
Native to Tanzania
Ethnicity Luguru
Native speakers
690,000 (2001)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ruf
Glottolog lugu1238[2]
G.35[3]

Luguru is a Bantu language spoken by the Luguru people of the Morogoro region of Tanzania. The name is also spelled Lughuru, Lugulu, Ruguru. It is closely related to Gogo and Zaramo, but is not intelligible with other languages.

References

  1. Luguru at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Luguru". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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