Sukuma (Kisukuma)

Sukuma is written in the Latin script, spoken by about 5.1M people across 1 region.

Script
Language tag
suk-Latn
Speakers
5.1M
Status
Living

Sample text

Banhu

GUNGUNO yimanyikile giki ikujo lya ng’wa munhu

GUNGUNO ubudalahi bo sekge ya banhu hi jile jandije ja shitwa

Alphabet (53)

Auxiliary characters (16)

Unicode blocks used

Where it's spoken

Tanzania

Notes

Luhende 2018 notes the digraphs and trigraphs ch, mh, nh, nyh, ny, ngh, ng’, fw, bh, sh are used. Some reference like Omniglot do not distinguish phonetic transcription from orthography. Some references use tilde instead of macron, like in adjecent languages.

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