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Nyankole

Nyankole proper noun: the Bantu lect spoken by more than two million members of the Nkore (Banyankore) and Hema (Hima) peoples of southwestern Uganda, closely related to the Kiga language and sometimes considered with Kiga to be a dialect of Nkore-Kiga, or (with Kiga, Nyoro and Tooro) a dialect of Kitara.

Proper noun

Nyankole

  1. The Bantu lect spoken by more than two million members of the Nkore (Banyankore) and Hema (Hima) peoples of southwestern Uganda, closely related to the Kiga language and sometimes considered with Kiga to be a dialect of Nkore-Kiga, or (with Kiga, Nyoro and Tooro) a dialect of Kitara.
    Synonyms:
    Nkore, Runyankole, Runyankore

Synonyms of Nyankole

Questions about Nyankole

What does Nyankole mean?
Nyankole means the Bantu lect spoken by more than two million members of the Nkore (Banyankore) and Hema (Hima) peoples of southwestern Uganda, closely related to the Kiga language and sometimes considered with Kiga to be a dialect of Nkore-Kiga, or (with Kiga, Nyoro and Tooro) a dialect of Kitara.
What part of speech is Nyankole?
Nyankole is a proper noun.

Words near Nyankole in the dictionary

  1. nyanbinary
  2. Nyangatom
  3. Nyangumarda
  4. Nyangumarta
  5. Nyanja
  6. Nyankole
  7. nyansook
  8. nyansooks
  9. nyanza
  10. nyanzas
  11. Nyanzi

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