Sukuma language

Sukuma
Sukuma
Kɪsukuma
Region	Tanzania
Ethnicity	Sukuma
Native speakers	8.1 million (2016)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Sukuma-Nyamwezi Nyamwezic Sukuma; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Gwe; Kiya;
Language codes
ISO 639-2	suk
ISO 639-3	suk
Glottolog	suku1261
Guthrie code	F.21

Sukuma is a Bantu language of Tanzania, spoken in an area southeast of Lake Victoria between Mwanza, Shinyanga, and Lake Eyasi.

Its orthography uses Roman script without special letters, which resembles that used for Swahili, and has been used for Bible translations and in religious literature.

Dialects (KɪmunaSukuma in the west, GɪmunaNtuzu/GɪnaNtuzu in the northeast, and Jìnàkɪ̀ɪ̀yâ/JimunaKɪɪyâ in the southeast) are easily mutually intelligible.

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