luganda

Also known as Ganda, Oluganda

lingua africana della famiglia niger-kordofaniana

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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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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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Instance of: modern language
Country: Uganda

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Wikimedia language code: lg
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 1000000
linguistic typology: nominative–accusative language
native label: Luganda
writing system: Latin script
indigenous to: Buganda
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/LUG
topic's main category: Category:Luganda language
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Il luganda (detto anche ganda) è una lingua africana della famiglia niger-kordofaniana, parlata dal popolo baganda, la principale etnia dell'Uganda. Ha una forma scritta standard, sviluppatasi a partire dalla seconda metà del XIX secolo e formalizzata nel 1947 dal governo del Buganda. Al 2022, è parlata da 11 milioni di parlanti totali.

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