Ganda language
| Luganda | |
|---|---|
| Ganda | |
| Oluganda | |
| Native to | Uganda |
| Region | Mainly Buganda |
| Ethnicity | Baganda |
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Native speakers
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4.1 million (2002 census) Second language: 1 million (1999) |
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Niger–Congo
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Latin script (Ganda alphabet) Ganda Braille |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | lg |
| ISO 639-2 | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | gand1255 |
JE.15 |
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| Ganda | |
|---|---|
| Person | Muganda |
| People | Baganda |
| Language | (O)Luganda |
| Country | Buganda |
The Ganda language, Luganda (/luːˈɡændə/,Oluganda [oluɡâːndá]), is one of the major languages in Uganda, spoken by five million Baganda and other people principally in Southern Uganda, including the capital Kampala. It belongs to the Bantu branch of the Niger–Congo language family. Typologically, it is a highly agglutinating language with subject–verb–object word order and nominative–accusative morphosyntactic alignment.
With about four million first-language-speakers in the Buganda region and a million others who are fluent, it is the most widely spoken Ugandan language. As second language it follows English and precedes Swahili. The language is used in some primary schools in Buganda as pupils begin to learn English, the primary official language of Uganda. Until the 1960s, Luganda was also the official language of instruction in primary schools in Eastern Uganda.
A notable feature of Luganda phonology is its geminate consonants and distinctions between long and short vowels. Speakers generally consider consonantal gemination and vowel lengthening to be two manifestations of the same effect, which they call simply "doubling" or "stressing".
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