Turu is a Bantu language spoken by about 600,000 people mainly in the Singida Region in central Tanzania. There are also some Turu speakers in nearby regions such as Manyara, Tabora and Morogoro.
Turu is also known as Nyaturu, Kinyaturu, Rįmi, Rémi, Rimi or Limi. Turu speakers call their language Kιnyatυrυ or Kιrιmi, and themselves Arιmi ("farmers") or Wanyatυrυ ("the people of Nyaturu"). There are three Turu tribes, the Airwana (Wilwana), Vahi (Wahi) and Anyiŋanyi (Wanyingʼanyi), each of which has its own dialect of Turu: Girawan, Giahi and Ginyamunyinganyi.
Turu can be written with the Latin script, and the Bible is being translated into Turu.
Download an alphabet chart for Turu (Excel)
Details of the Turu alphabet (PDF) provided by Wolfram Siegel
Letters are labialized when followed by w, e.g. mw [mʷ], and palatalized when followed by y, e.g. m [mʲ].
Source: https://afriprov.tangaza.ac.ke/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/ebooks_nyaturu.pdf
Information about Turu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turu_language
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/nyat1246
http://www.language-archives.org/language/rim
https://www.101lasttribes.com/tribes/turu.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turu_people_(Tanzania)
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