Atlantic-Congo · ISO 639-3 cuh
Chuka Language
Chuka is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken by about 2.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Chuka is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Chuka
Language family
- Atlantic-Congo
- Volta-Congo
- Benue-Congo
- Bantoid
- Southern Bantoid
- Narrow Bantu
- East Bantu
- Northeast Savanna Bantu
- Central Kenya Bantu
- Eastern Kirinyaga
- Chuka
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Chuka language
Chuka is spoken by about 2.0 million people, which makes it the 303rd most spoken language in the world — just behind Southern Betsimisaraka Malagasy (2.0 million) and ahead of Esperanto (2.0 million). It belongs to the Atlantic-Congo language family and, more precisely, to the Eastern Kirinyaga group within the Benue-Congo branch.
Where is Chuka spoken?
Chuka is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Kenya (2.0 million).
Chuka is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Chuka is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Meru, Kikuyu, Kamba (Kenya), Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Rundi and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 cuh.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.