Also Known As:
Kinubi, Ki-Nubi, Kinúbi, Rután Núbi
Dialects & Varieties
- Ugandan Kinubi
- Kenyan Kinubi
Kinubi
Kinubi
Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
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Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
"... competition with English and Swahili may endanger the use of Kinubi, especially in big cities such as Mombasa and Nairobi, as it did in Tanzania, where it seems that Swahili has replaced Kinubi among the Nubi communities."
Location and Context
Countries
Kenya, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan
Location Description
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Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
"In East Africa, the Nubi communities are proud of their language and see it as one of the features of their identity."
Other Languages Used By The Community
Swahili, English
Number of Other Language Speakers:
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Domains of Other Languages:
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Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
Latin
Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
"Kinubi may be written in Latin script; some Nubi exchange letters and e-mails in their language or use it in the written administration of their cultural organizations, as in Mombasa, for instance. In Bombo (Uganda), Mustafer Khamisy writes poems in Kinubi and distributes them during Nubi cultural events."
Recent Resources
The wikipedia page for the Nubi language. Includes phoneme tables and untranslated text sample.