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Preferred term

lugGanda  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Ganda, or Luganda (Ganda: Oluganda ), is the major language of Uganda, spoken by over sixteen million Ganda and other people mainly 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.

Entry terms

  • Luganda

ISO 639-1 code

  • lg

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • lug

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • lug

ISO 639-3 code

  • lug

Notation

  • lug

In other languages

  • ganda

    French

  • Luganda
  • Luganda

    German

  • Ganda-Sprache
  • ganda

    Italian

  • Lingua luganda
  • Portuguese

  • Língua luganda
  • luganda
  • ganda

    Spanish

  • Idioma luganda

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/lug

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