Luguru | |
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Ikiruguru | |
Native to | Tanzania |
Ethnicity | Luguru |
Native speakers | 690,000 (2001)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ruf |
Glottolog | lugu1238 |
G.35 [2] |
Luguru is a Bantu language spoken by the Luguru people of the Morogoro region and the Pwani 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.
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |