Nyoro people

Nyoro people are Bantus from Uganda, Eastern Africa. Their kingdom is Bunyoro.

Name

They are mentioned under various names in various sources. Some of their names include Bakitara, Banyoro, Bunyoro, Gungu, Kitara, Kyopi, Nyoros, Ouanyoro, Runyoro, Vouanyoro, Wanyoro.

Language

Their native language is nyoro (or sometimes called runyoro). It is a Bantu language, with 667 000 native speakers as of 2002.

See also

  • Ethnic groups in Africa

    • References

  • ↑ Source RAMEAU, BnF
  • ↑ Nyoro people at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)

    • Other sources

    Books

  • David Kihumuro Apuuli, A thousand years of Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom : the people and the rulers, Fountain Publishers, Kampala, 1994, 144 p.
  • John Beattie, The Nyoro state, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1971, 280 p.
  • A.B.T. Byaruhanga-Akiiki, Religion in Bunyoro, Kenya Literature Bureau, Nairobi, 1982, 256 p. (texte remanié d'une thèse soutenue à l'Université Makerere en 1971)
  • Brian Kingzett Taylor, The Western Lacustrine Bantu (Nyoro, Toro, Nyankore, Kiga, Haya and Zinza, with sections on the Amba and Konjo), International African Institute, Londres, 1962, 159 p.
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