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Sukuma

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Summary

Sukuma is a language[1]. Sukuma ranks in the top 5% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (213 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Tanzania[3]
  • Instance of: modern language[4]
  • Subclass of: Sukuma-Nyamwezi[5]
  • Writing system: Latin script[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Sukuma language[7]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 5,430,000[8]
  • Native label: Jìsùgǔmà[9]
  • Indigenous to: Kagera Region[10], Kigoma Region[11], Mara Region[12], Mwanza Region[13], Rukwa Region[14], Shinyanga Region[15], Singida Region[16], Tabora Region[17], Geita Region[18], Simiyu Region[19]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SUK[20]
  • Ethnologue language status: 5 Developing[21]

Why It Matters

Sukuma has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] Sukuma is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

Claude Monet Tanzania

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 932
    Wikipedia languages → ['de', 'en', 'et', 'eu', 'fi', 'fr', 'functions', 'ha', 'hif', 'id', 'ig', 'it',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 932, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7326864|Sukuma (#7326864)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    Subclass of → Sukuma-Nyamwezi
    Ethnologue language status → 5 Developing
    Indigenous to → Kagera Region, Kigoma Region, Mara Region +7
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007548601705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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