Luganda

Ganda
Oluganda
Native toUganda
RegionBuganda
EthnicityBaganda
Native speakers
20 million[1]
Niger–Congo
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Volta-Congo
Early form
early-Luganda[2]
Dialects
  • Kooki
  • Ludiopa
  • Luvuma
  • Sese
Latin script (Ganda alphabet)
Ganda Braille
Language codes
ISO 639-1lg
ISO 639-2lug
ISO 639-3lug
Glottologgand1255
Guthrie code
JE.15[3]

Ganda or Luganda is a Bantu language of Uganda.

Dictionaries

  • Murphy, John D. (1972) Luganda-English Dictionary. Catholic University of America Press.
  • Snoxall, R.A. (1967) Luganda-English Dictionary. Clarendon Press, Oxford

References

  1. "20 million people can speak Luganda - linguists".
  2. Stephens, Rhiannon (2 September 2013). A History of African Motherhood: The Case of Uganda, 700-1900. ISBN 9781107030800.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

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