Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nyankole

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
nyankole
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

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

Questions

What does nyankole mean?
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.

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