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Il luganda 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.
- 11 milioni (Ethnologue, 2022)
- Uganda
Ganda or Luganda (/ l uː ˈ ɡ æ n d ə / loo-GAN-də, Oluganda, [oluɡâːndá]) 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 Baganda [7] and other people principally in central Uganda, including the country's capital, Kampala .
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In all of the Bantu-speaking areas of Uganda, dialect continua are very common. For example, people around Mbarara speak ruNyankore and people from Tooro Kingdom speak ruTooro, but in between those areas there are villages where most of the people speak a dialect that is best characterised as intermediate between Runyankore and Rutooro. In fact, pr...
In Uganda, as in many African countries, English was introduced in government and public life by way of missionary work and the educational system. During the first decades of the twentieth century, Swahili gained influence as it was not only used in the army and the police, but was also taught in schools. The Baganda viewed the introduction of Swa...
Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/. More specifically Ethnologue...Ladefoged, Peter; Ruth Glick; Clive Criper; Clifford H. Prator; Livingstone Walusimbi (1972) Language in Uganda (Ford Foundation language surveys vol. 1). London/New York etc. Oxford University Pre...Mpuga, Douglas (2003) 'The official language issue: A look at the Uganda Experience'. Unpublished paper presented at the African Language Research Project Summer Conference, Maryland.Parry, Kate (ed.) (2000) Language and literacy in Uganda: towards a sustainable reading culture. Kampala: Fountain Publishers.Fra le varie altre lingue diffuse in Uganda, la maggiore è il luganda (o ganda), una lingua bantu, oggi di uso comune (anche nell'istruzione) per più di quattro milioni di persone (stanziate nella parte meridionale del paese, nella regione di Buganda e a Kampala) e che costituisce, di fatto, una lingua nazionale.
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- Kampala (1.507.080 ab. / 2014)
- (SW) Jamhuri ya Uganda, (EN) Republic of Uganda
Il luganda è una lingua africana della famiglia niger-kordofaniana, parlata dal popolo baganda, la principale etnia dell'Uganda.
Luganda, or Ganda, is a member of the Bantu branch of Niger-Congo languages. It is spoken by about 3 million Baganda people, who live mainly in the Buganda region in southern Uganda. Luganda is also widely used elsewhere in Uganda as a second language. The name Uganda is the Swahili version of Baganda.
University of Cambridge Language Centre Resources - Ganda / Luganda. Ganda / Luganda. A Niger-Congo language and a member of the Bantu group of languages, spoken by c. 3.5 million people mainly in Buganda (south-east Uganda), between Lake Victoria and Lake Kyogo. Ganda developed over centuries as a spoken language.
