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Swahili
Swahili, also known as Kiswahili, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands). Estimates of the number of Swahili speakers, including both native and second-language speakers, generally range from 150 million to 200 million. Most native speakers reside in Tanzania and Kenya.
Gujarati
Indo-Aryan language that is spoken on the state of Gujarat
Kinyarwanda
Kinyarwanda, officially known as Ikinyarwanda, is a Bantu language and the national language of Rwanda. It is a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language that is also spoken in Uganda, where the dialect is known as Ikinyakore, Rufumbira, or Urufumbira. Kinyarwanda is universal among the native population of Rwanda and is mutually intelligible with Kirundi, the national language of neighbouring Burundi.
Kirundi
Kirundi (), also known as Rundi, is a Bantu language and the national language of Burundi. It is mutually intelligible with Kinyarwanda, the national language of Rwanda, and the two form parts of the Rwanda-Rundi dialect continuum spoken in Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and Kenya.
Luganda
Ganda or Luganda ( ; ) is a Bantu language spoken in the African Great Lakes region. It is one of the major languages in Uganda and is spoken by more than 5.56 million Ugandans Baganda and other people principally in central Uganda, including the country's capital, Kampala. Typologically, it is an agglutinative, tonal language with subject–verb–object word order and nominative–accusative morphosyntactic alignment.
Nilotic
small language family of East Africa
Acholi
Southern Luo dialect
Runyankole
Bantu language spoken by the Nkore and Hema peoples of Southwestern Uganda
Soga
Bantu language spoken by the Soga people of the Busoga region in Eastern Uganda.
Alur
language spoken in the southern West Nile region of Uganda.
Bari
language spoken in South Sudan & Uganda
Kiga
language of the Kiga people (Bakiga) in Uganda.
Nubi
Sudanese Arabic-based creole language
Kuliak
family of languages
Ik
Kuliak language of Uganda
Nyoro
bantu language spoken by the Nyoro people of Uganda.
Teso
language spoken by the Iteso people of Uganda and Kenya
Soo language
language
Lango
language
Lugbarati
language of the Lugbara people
Tooro
Bantu language spoken by the Batooro in Uganda
Luo
Western Nilotic language family spoken in East Africa
Pökoot
language spoken in western Kenya and eastern Uganda by the Pokot people.
Gwere
language spoken by the Bagwere Eastern part of Uganda
Masaba
Bantu language in East Africa
Aringa
Lugbara dialect in the West Nile region of Uganda.
languages of Uganda
languages of a geographic region
Konjo
bantu language spoken by the Konjo people
Karamojong
language spoken by the Karamojong people in Northeast Uganda
Sabiny
language
Ugandan Sign Language
deaf sign language of Uganda
Amba
language spoken in parts of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo by the Amba people
Kakwa
language spoken in Africa
Adhola
dialect of Southern Luo spoken in Uganda
Nyole
language
saamia
moyo
Talinga
Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Kitara
language derived from a combination of Runyoro, Rukiga, Runyankole and Rotooro.
Ruuli
language
Gungu
language
Swahili Ajami
Arabic script for Swahili
Elgon
languages of the Southern Nilotic Kalenjin family spoken in the Mount Elgon area in western Kenya and eastern Uganda.
Nyangia
nearly extinct Kuliak language