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Name: Tharaka

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Kitharaka; Saraka; Sharoka

Spoken in: Kenya

Number of speakers: 139,000 (2006), increasing. Less than 35% monolinguals. Some Tharaka people live outside their homeland. Ethnic population: 150,000 (Ethnologue)

Code: thk

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)

Parent Subgroup: Meru (meru)

Child Dialects: Tharaka; South Tharaka (thk-thr) Gatue; North Tharaka (thk-gat) Ntugi; Central Tharaka (thk-ntu) Thagichu; Kitui (thk-tha)

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