Nyoro-Tooro language

Nyoro-Tooro
Runyoro-Rutooro
Orunyoro-Orutooro
Native toUganda
RegionBunyoro, Tooro Kingdom
EthnicityBanyoro people, Batooro people
Native speakers
1,155,000 (2002/1991 census)
Standard forms
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
nyo  Nyoro
ttj  Tooro
Glottolognyor1247
JE.11–12

Nyoro-Tooro is a language spoken by around 1,200,000 people living in western Uganda. It is often defined as two separate languages: Nyoro and Tooro, though it is defined as one language by the Ministry of Education in Uganda.:143–144 It is closely related to Runyankore-Rukiga.