Atlantic-Congo · East Africa

Nyankole

Not endangered

Nyankole is documented so far only to the level of grammar.

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FamilyAtlantic-Congo
StatusNot endangered
DocumentationGrammar
ISO 639-3nyn
Glottocodenyan1307

Spoken in Rwanda · Tanzania · Uganda

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Closest relatives

Languages sharing the deepest branch of Atlantic-Congo's family tree with Nyankole.

  1. Chiga

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  2. Nyoro

    Not endangered
    Grammar

  3. Tooro

    Not endangered
    Grammar

  4. Hema

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

  5. Ruuli

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

  6. Talinga-Bwisi

    Threatened
    Long grammar

  7. Haya

    Not endangered
    Grammar

  8. Kerewe

    Not endangered
    Grammar

Reference data for Nyankole from Glottolog 5.2.1, licensed CC-BY-4.0. Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2025. Glottolog 5.2.1. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at https://glottolog.org)