Kikuria (kwa lugha yenyewe: Igikuria) ni mojawapo ya lugha za Kibantu inayoongelewa na kabila la Wakurya nchini Tanzania na Kenya[1].

Mwaka wa 2005 idadi ya wasemaji wa Kikuria nchini Tanzania imehesabiwa kuwa watu 430,000. Pia kuna wasemaji 260,000 nchini Kenya.

Kufuatana na uainishaji wa lugha za Kibantu wa Malcolm Guthrie Kikuria iko katika kundi la E40.

Maho (2009) anahesabu Kisimbiti, Kihacha, Kisurwa na Kisweta kama lugha tofauti, si lahaja za Kikurya tu.

Alfabeti ya Kikuria [2]
A B Ch E Ë G H I K M N Nd Ny Ng' O Ö R Rr S T U W Y
a b ch e ë g h i k m n nd ny ng' o ö r rr s t u w y

Tanbihi

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  1. Ethnologue entry for Kuria
  2. Rhonda L. Hartell, ed. 1993. The Alphabets of Africa. Dakar: UNESCO and Summer Institute of Linguistics

Marejeo

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  • Jelle Cammenga, Igikuria phonology and morphology : a Bantu language of South-West Kenya and North-West Tanzania, Köppe, Köln, 2004, 351 p. ISBN 3896450298 (revised text of a thesis)
  • S. M. Muniko, B. Muita oMagige and M. J. Ruel (ed.), Kuria-English dictionary, LIT, Hambourg, 1996, 137 p. ISBN 3825829510
  • W. H. Whiteley, The structure of the Kuria verbal and its position in the sentence, University of London, 1955, 161 p. (thesis)
  • Phebe Yoder, Tata na Baba = Father and Mother : a first Kuria reader, Musoma Press, Musoma, Tanganyika, 1949, 44 p.
  • Maho, Jouni & Bonny Sands. 2002. The languages of Tanzania: a bibliography. (Orientalia et africana gothoburgensia, no 17.) Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. Pp ix, 428. ISBN 91-7346-454-6

Kitabu hiki cha mwisho kinataja marejeo mengine kama:

  • Cammenga, Jillert. 1994. Kuria phonology and morphology. PhD thesis. Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Kurasa vii, 306.
  • Dempwolff, Otto. 1914/15. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Sprachen in Deutsch-Ostafrika. Teil 4: Kulia. Zeitschrift für Kolonialsprachen, 5, uk.26-44, 113-136.
  • Rose, Sarah R. 2001. Tense and aspect in Kuria. Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere, 67, uk.61-100.

Viungo vya nje

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  Makala hii kuhusu mambo ya lugha bado ni mbegu.
Je, unajua kitu kuhusu Kikuria kama historia yake, uenezi au maendeleo yake?
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Basi unaweza kuisaidia Wikipedia kwa kuihariri na kuongeza habari.