Luganda

Luganda
Ganda
Oluganda
Native to	Uganda
Region	Mainly Buganda
Ethnicity	Baganda
Native speakers	4.1 million (2002 census) Second language: 1 million (1999)
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Great Lakes Bantu Nyoro–Ganda Luganda
Writing system	Latin script (Ganda alphabet) Ganda Braille
Language codes
ISO 639-1	lg
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	gand1255
Guthrie code	JE.15
This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters.

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".

...
Wikipedia