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زبان لوگاندا

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Also known as Ganda, Oluganda

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.

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Luganda is a Bantu language spoken by more than 5.56 million people in central Uganda, including the capital city of Kampala, making it one of the country's major languages. It is an agglutinative, tonal language with a subject-verb-object word order, which shapes how words and grammar function in the language.

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Key facts

Language.ref
e25
Language.name
Ganda
Language.states
Uganda
Language.region
Buganda
Language.ethnicity
Baganda
Language.speakers
L1: million
Language.date
2014
Language.speakers2
L2: million (2014)
Language.speakers_label
Speakers
Language.familycolor
Niger-Congo
Language.fam2
Atlantic–Congo
Language.fam3
Volta-Congo
Language.fam4
Benue–Congo
Language.fam5
Bantoid
Language.fam6
Southern Bantoid
Language.fam7
Bantu
Language.fam8
Northeast Bantu
Language.fam9
Great Lakes Bantu

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